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"In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing upon such diverse sources as theories of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer, re…
Table of Contents Acknowledgements A Report to the Academy 1 In Some Way or Another One Can Protect Oneself From Evil Spirits by Portraying Them 1 2 Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds 19 3 Spacing Out 33 4 The Golden Bough: The Magic of Mimesis 44 5 The Golden Army: The Organ…
I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006--as well as its caption, "I swear I saw this"--Taussi…
