Michael Taussig

Michael Taussig (born April 3, 1940 in Sydney ) is an Australian anthropologist . Although he publishes on the subject of medical anthropology, he is best known for his exploration of Marx's 'idea of ​​commodity fetishism', particularly with regard to the works of Walter Benjamin .

biography

Taussig studied medicine at the University of Sydney . He has a medical degree , a PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics and is a professor at Columbia University .

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Taussig was heavily influenced by both the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and French Poststructuralism , and became an actor of the shift in the field of anthropology in the 1980s. His work contributed to a growing distrust of cultural analysis from the perspective of the dominant western capitalist culture. It was his early experiences as a doctor in Colombia in the late 1960s that influenced a profound shift in his understanding of the role of stories and narratives, over and against objective science in arts education. Ethnography became a conscious positive force in this culture. This led to Taussig's blending of fact and fiction in his ethnographic writing and thus his status as a figure of controversy in the field of anthropology.

Publications

• Mimesis and Alterity. Routledge, New York City 1993.
  • Mimesis and Alterity: Another Story of the Senses . European publishing company, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-434-52000-7 .
• 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts; No 001.
  • Field Notebooks - field research books. ( dOCUMENTA (13) ). Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2850-8 .
• Sympathy charm. Texts on ethnography. Konstanz University Press, Konstanz 2013, ISBN 978-3-86253-014-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Taussig Faculty Page at Columbia University Biography and Short Bibliography. Columbia University , New York, accessed June 28, 2011 . 

Web links

• Michael Taussig on the Columbia University website . (English)