“Anthropologists (and those in allied disciplines) know Taussig as a stylistic innovator.”—<i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br />  <br /> “Above all, he is interested in individual stories and experiences, unique tales that cannot be reduced to rational explanation or bland report. . . . At the center of Taussig’s method is the anthropologist’s desire to bear witness to what he cannot understand.”—<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i><br />  <br /><b>“</b>One of the most accomplished writers that anthropology has produced.”—<i>Choice</i><br />  <br /> “Iconoclastic, experimental, and poetic, refusing ‘theory’ even as he makes it do his work.”—Hugh Raffles, The New School<br />  <br /><b>“</b>[This is] what anthropology is for: the art or science that shows fish the water. Taussig is renowned as one of its dizziest dialectical conjurors.”—<i>Times Higher Education</i><br />  <br /> “ [Taussig’s] late career unfolds with vitality, ingenuity, and surprises—with the storytelling voice, finally, of a Marlowe.”—George Marcus, University of California, Irvine

Praise for Michael Taussig

"In the nineteen chapters that make up the book, Taussig reflects on a world on the brink of collapse; a world which is based on a “new normal” marked by the 'fantastic power of catastrophe' and the non-existence of the ordinary... Taussig’s book helps one consider new paths for understanding our contemporary world and the various forms of violence, dominance and destruction that haunt us."

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