{"title":"Michael Taussig","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Taussig's works explore the intersections of culture, power, and belief with a sharp and often provocative lens. His books blend ethnography, history, and social theory to challenge conventional understandings of magic, violence, and colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly detailed narratives that invite reflection on the ways societies construct meaning and resist authority. Whether through vivid storytelling or scholarly insight, Taussig's writing offers a unique perspective within Education \u0026amp; Reference.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"and-the-garden-is-you-by-michael-taussig-9780226832401","title":"And the Garden Is You","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline's most influential thinkers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Taussig's work is known for its critical insights and bold, experimental style. In the eleven essays in this new collection, Taussig reflects on the act of writing itself, demonstrating its importance for anthropological practice and calling for the discipline to keep experiential knowledge from being extinguished as fieldnotes become scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSetting out to show how this can be done, \u003cem\u003eAnd the Garden Is You\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies a form of exploratory writing that preserves the spontaneity of notes scribbled down in haste. In these essays, the author's reflections take us from his childhood in Sydney to trips to Afghanistan, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Turkey, and Syria. Along the way, Taussig explores themes of fabulation and provocation that are central to his life's work, in addition to the thinkers dearest to him—Bataille, Benjamin, Burroughs, and Nietzsche, among others. This collection is vintage Taussig, bound to interest longtime readers and newcomers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429797314796,"sku":"9780226832401","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226832401.jpg?v=1774559913"},{"product_id":"corpse-magic-by-michael-taussig-9780226837413","title":"Corpse Magic","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorpse Magic\u003c\/em\u003e examines beliefs about vengeance the slain magically enact on their killers, focusing on lethal violence in Colombia and the United States.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCorpse Magic\u003c\/em\u003e is a response to the global ubiquity of violence. In this bracing new work, the influential anthropologist Michael Taussig puts killings in Colombia, by gangs and guerrillas, police and the military, and agents of agribusiness, in conversation with mass shootings and police killings, disproportionately of Black people, in the United States. In both contexts, he examines the effects of violent killing on its victims, its perpetrators, and those who witness and relive it through media footage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from literature, religion, philosophy, and anthropology, Taussig traces the idea that the act of killing \"infects\" the killer and spreads outward. He then connects this concept of contagion to beliefs in Colombia and elsewhere that the souls of the slain possess those of their slayers, and that magic can be used to empower or thwart corpses as agents of vengeance. In this powerful and imaginative work, Taussig asks what kind of power the dead continue to have; what kinds of magic can manage that power; and what, if anything, can stop seemingly endless cycles of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596053496044,"sku":"9780226837413","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d6b180a7e96debea0140b2062884a86f.jpg?v=1777931660"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/michael-taussig.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}