Michael Taussig, author of Mimesis and Alterity (1993), teaches anthropology at Columbia University. His recent work Palma Africana (2018) explores writing in relation to the metamorphic sublime.
Michael Taussig
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Virtual Roundtable on “The Mana of Mass Society”
Many of anthropology’s terms of art are taken from afar. Especially in the half century after 1870 …
