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About Michael Taussig

Michael Taussig teaches Daniel Pinchbeck about sorcery and other arcane aspects of anthropology including Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. He has visited Colombia yearly since 1969 and is the author of several books including Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing; The Nervous System; Mimesis and Alterity; The Magic of the State; and Defacement.