Michael Taussig - Articles

Taussig, Michael. “Animism and the Philosophy of Everyday Life: Le Tour de Tiergarten” Lead-off essay for catalog for Animism show in Antwerp, Berne, and Berlin. 2009.

Taussig, Michael. “Humming” in: edited volume on sound. MIT Press.

Taussig, Michael. What Do Drawings Want? Culture, Theory and Critique. Issue 2 & 3, July 2009.

Taussig, Michael. The Good Ship Lusitania. The Art School of the University of Evora. Issue 2, 2009.

Taussig, Michael. Pearls. in: Russel Storer and Jessica Morgan and Michael Taussig and Simryn Gill. Simryn Gill. March 1, 2009. Walter Konig. Paperback, 160 pages, Language English, ISBN: 3865603998. pp 101-112. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. The Corn Wolf: Writing Apotropaic Texts. Critical Inquiry. 2008.

Taussig, Michael. Zoology, Magic, and Surrealism in the War on Terror. Critical inquiry. Vol. 34, Winter 2008.

Taussig, Michael. Redeeming Indigo. Theory, Culture & Society. Vol. 25, No. 3, 2008. pp. 1-15.

Taussig, Michael. Getting High with Walter Benjamin and William Burroughs. Cabinet. Issue 30, Summer 2008.

Taussig, Michael. Catalog Essay for Manifesta7. Trento, Italy, June 2008.

Taussig, Michael. La Bella y La Bestia. Antípoda. No. 6, January-June 2008.

Taussig, Michael. Feathery Promises. Radiomobile. November 2008.

Taussig, Michael. Letter to Kurtz. Brussels Bienalle. 2008.

Taussig, Michael. Humming. Sydney Biennale. 2008.

Taussig, Michael. Foreword. Ticio Escobar. The Curse of Nemur: In Search of the Art, Myth and Ritual of the Ishir. University of Pittsburgh Press. February 15, 2007. Paperback, 360 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0822959372. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Aeronautics. in: Aernout Mik : shifting shifting. Camden Arts Centre. February 2007. Hardcover, 386 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1900470632. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Yage Letters Redux. Primera Revista Latinoamericano de Libros. April 2007.

Taussig, Michael. Zoology, Magic, and Surrealism. Critical Inquiry. Volume 34, Number S2, Winter 2008.

Taussig, Michael. In the Desert with Ria Pacque. November 2007.

Taussig, Michael. Secrets of Life. La Vanguardia. January 8, 2006.

Taussig, Michael. What is the Color of the Sacred? Critical Inquiry. Fall 2006.

Taussig, Michael. Running Cattle Where Mountains become Islands. Matt Kegan. ETC. Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2006.

Taussig, Michael. History as Sorcery. Anselm Franke (Editor). No Matter How Bright the Light, The Crossing Occurs at Night. Buchhandlung Walther Konig. January 1, 2007. Paperback, 220 pages, Language English, ISBN: 3865601510. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Diary. London Review of Books. October 6, 2006.

Taussig, Michael. Interview with David Levi-Strauss. Cabinet. Issue 18, Summer 2005.

Taussig, Michael. Blow, Winds, and Crack your Cheeks. Harper’s Magazine. May 2004.

Taussig, Michael. Catalogue Essay on Jimmie Durham. Sydney Biennale. 2004.

Taussig, Michael. The Diary as Witness: An Anthropologist Writes What He Must. The Chronicle of Higher Education. December 19, 2003.

Taussig, Michael. Miasma. in: Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke (Editors). Culture and Waste. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. February 15, 2003. Hardcover, 144 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0742519813. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. 2003 The Language of Flowers. Critical Inquiry. Issue 30, Autumn 2003.

Taussig, Michael. The Adult’s Imagination of the Child’s Imagination. in: Pamela R Matherws and David McWhirter (Editors). Aesthetic Subjects. University of Minnesota Press. October 2003. Hardcover, 384 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0816639922. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael.La ley en una tierra sin ley. Diario de una Limpiezia. in: Fronteras de la Modernidad en America Latina. Iberoamericana. March 25, 2003. Paperback, 309 pages, Language Spanish, ISBN: 1930744161. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. 2002. Ayahusca and Shamanism: Michael Taussig Interviewed by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Exit 18 Pamphlet Series. Autonomedia. June 1, 2002. Paperback, 22 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1570271313. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza. Trepan. No. 4, Pass/Ports. 2002.

Taussig, Michael. 2002. “Old Glory,” in Bruno Latour (Editor). Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars In Science, Religion, and Art. MIT Press. July 7, 2002. Paperback, 763 pages, Language English, ISBN: 026262172X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. 2002. Re-publication of my “Viscerality, Faith, and Skepticism . . .” essay in volume on magic edited by Peter Pels and Birgit Meyer Taussig, Michael. Dying Is An Art, Like Everything Else. Critical Inquiry. Vol 28, No. 1, Autumn 2001.

Taussig, Michael. 2000. “Wassily Kandinsky: Three Sounds” in Art Forum, September 2000 Taussig, Michael. The Beach (A Fantasy). Critical Inquiry. Volume 26, Number 2, Winter 2000.
in: W.J.T. Mitchell (Editor) Landscape and Power. University of Chicago Press. April 15, 2002. Paperback, 383 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0226532054. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. “Epílogo” Esclavitud y liberated en el valle del rio Cauca. Bogota. Banco de la Republica y Ancora. 1999.

Taussig, Michael. 1999: “Viscerality, Faith and Scepticism: Another Theory of Magic” in Nicholas Dirks (Editor). In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century. University of Minnesota Press. December 1998. Hardcover, 308 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0816631220. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. December 1, 1998. Paperback, 326 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0816631239. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. “Transgression” in: Mark Taylor (Editor) Critical Terms For Religious Studies. University of Chicago Press. August 15, 1998. Hardcover, 430 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0226791564. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, 430 pages, ISBN: 0226791572. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. “Crossing the Face” in: Patrica Spyer (Editor). Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces. Routledge. November 20, 1997. Hardcover, 272 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0415918561. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, 272 pages, Languag English, ISBN: 041591857X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. "Open Letter to Jimmie Durham" in: Jimmie Durham: Der Verfuhrer und der Steinerne Gast. Springer. March 14, 1996. Hardcover, 128 pages, Language German, ISBN: 3211828370. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. “The Injustice of Policing: Prehistory and Rectitude" in: Austin Sarat (Editor). Justice and Injustice in Law and Legal Theory. University of Michigan Press. August 1996. Hardcover, 193 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0472096257. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, 184 pages, ISBN: 0472066250. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. "Poetry as History" in" Valentine Daniel and Jeffrey M. Peck (Editors). Culture/Contexture: Essays in Anthropology and Literary. Study. University of California Press. August 9, 1996. Hardcover, 405 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0520084632. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, 405 pages, ISBN: 0520084640. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. “Schopenhauer’s Beard,” in Maurice Berger and Brian Wallis and Simon Watson (Editors). Constructing Masculinity. Routledge. December 27, 1995. Hardcover, 320 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0415910528. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, 320 pages, ISBN: 0415910536. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. The Sun Gives Without Receiving: An Old Story. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 37, Issue 2, August 1995.

Taussig, Michael. Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds. in: Lucien Taylor (Editor). Visualizing Theory, Selected essays from Visual Anthropology Review. Routledge. March 10, 1994. Hardcover, 496 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0415908426. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. 1992 "Of Doubtful Etymology," in: Catherine Liu. Lusitania #4: “The Abject, America". Lusitania Press. January 1, 1993. Paperback, 240 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1882791002. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. “La construccion de las americas: el antropologo como Colon” in: Carlos Uribe (Editor). La construccion de las americas. Universidad de los Andes. 1993. Paperback, 283 pages, Language Spanish.

Taussig, Michael. "Maleficium: State Fetishism" in: Emily Apter and William Pietz (Editors). Essays on Fetishism. Cornell University Press. April 1993. Hardcover, 416 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0801425220. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, 393 pages, ISBN: 0801497574. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Das Vermächtnis. Gewalt und Widerstand. Lettre International. June 3, 1992.

Taussig, Michael. "‘La magia del estado: Maria Lionza y Simon Bolivar en la Venezuela contemporanea” in" Gutterez Estevez (Editor). De Palabra y Obra en el Nuevo Mundo. Encuentros Interetnicos. 1992. Vol. 2, Language Spanish, ISBN: 9682318300. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Tactility and Distraction. Cultural Anthropology. Issue 6, Vol. 2, May 1991.

Taussig, Michael. Cane Toads: An Unnatural History--A Review. American Anthropologist. Vol. 92, Issue 4, 1990.

Taussig, Michael. Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest. The Journal of Historical Sociology. Vol. 3, Issue 3, 1990.

Taussig, Michael. Terror As Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege. Social Text. No. 23, Autumn - Winter 1989.

Taussig, Michael. La magia del estado. Falsas Riendas. (Bogota), No. 3, 1989.

Taussig, Michael. The Nervous System, Part 1: Dada & Homesickness. Kroeber Journal of Anthropology. 1989.

Taussig, Michael. An Australian Hero. History Workshop Journal. Issue 24, 1987.

Taussig, Michael. The Rise and Fall of Marxist Anthropology. Social Analysis. 21, 1987.

Taussig, Michael. Orden y Desorden en ritos curativos neocoloniales: Brecht, Benjamin, y el desorden mismo. Revista de Antropologia. de la Universidad de los Andes (Bogota). No. 3, 1987.

Taussig, Michael. Review of: The Assassination of Gaitán: Public Life and Urban Violence in Colombia. American Ethnologist. Vol. 14, No. 2, May 1987.

Taussig, Michael. History as Sorcery. Representations. No. 7. Summer 1984.

Taussig, Michael. Culture of Terror, Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo report and the Explanation of Torture. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 26, Issue 3, July 1984.
Reprinted in Paul Rabinow & William Sullivan (Editors). Interpretive Social Science: A Second Look. edited by , pp. 241-279, University of California Press, May 23, 1988, Hardcover, 395 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0520058364. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, 404 pages, ISBN: 0520058380. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
Reprinted also in Religao e Sociedade 10, Rio De Janeiro.
Reprinted also in Spanish in Falsas Riendas, Bogota , #1, #2, 1987 & 1988.

Taussig, Michael and Anna Rubbo. Up off Their Knees: Servanthood in Western Colombia. Latin American Perspectives. Vol. 10, No. 4, Autumn 1983.

Taussig, Michael. Coming Home: Ritual and Labor Migration in a Colombia Town. Working Papers Series No. 30, Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University. 1982, 22 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0888190514. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Folk Healing and the Structure of Conquest. Journal of Latin American Lore. 6, 1980.
Republished in: Norman Whitten and Arlene Torres (Editors). Blackness in Latin America and the Carribean: Social Dynamics and Cultural transformations. Indiana University Press. September 1, 1998. Paperback, 536 pages, Language English, ISBN: 025321193X. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Reification and the Consciousness of the Patient. Social Science and Medicine. 1980.

Taussig, Michael. Black Religion and Resistance in Colombia: Three Centuries of Social Struggle in the Cauca Valley. Marxist Perspectives. 2, 1979.
Reprinted in translation as "Religion de esclavos y la creacion de un campesinado en el valle del rio Cauca, Colombia, Estudios rurales latinoamericanos, 2 (3): 362-99.

Taussig, Michael. Peasant Economics and the Development of Capitalist Agriculture in the Cauca Valley, Colombia. Latin American Perspectives. 5, 1978.
Reprinted in John Harris (Editor). Rural Development:Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change. Hutchinson University Library Series. March 31, 1982. Paperback, Language English, ISBN: 0415084695. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. 1978. "The Evolution of Rural Wage Labour in the Cauca Valley of Colombia, 1700-1970." in: Kenneth Duncan and Ian Rutledge and Colin Harding (Editors). Land and labour in Latin America: essays on the development of agrarian capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Cambridge University Press. February 28, 1978. Hardcover, 520 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0521212065. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. January 11, 2009. Paperback, 552 pages, ISBN: 0521093201. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. Nutrition, development, and foreign aid: a case study of U.S.-directed health care in Colombian plantation zone. International Journal of Health Services. Vol. 8, 1978.
Reprinted in: Vicente Navarro (Editor). Imperialism, Health, and Medicine. Baywood Publishing Company. June 1981. Paperback, 285 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0895030195. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Taussig, Michael. The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil's Labor and the Baptism of Money. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 19, No. 20, April 1977.