Michael Taussig is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. His extensive fieldwork has spanned topics of slavery; hunger; commodity fetishism; the impact of colonialism on folk healing; the relevance of modernism and post-modernist aesthetics for the understanding of ritual; and the making, talking, and writing of terror. Taussig’s most recent book is My Cocaine Museum, and he is currently writing a new book entitled What Color is the Sacred?

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