Colour and Slavery

Taussig, M

Colour and Slavery

Taussig, M

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Issue Date:: 2008-08-12T05:10:36Z

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Taussig, M
dc.date.accessioned	2008-08-12T05:10:36Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:17:13Z
dc.date.available	2008-08-12T05:10:36Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:17:13Z
dc.date.issued	2008-08-12T05:10:36Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19953
dc.description.abstract	Brief Biography: Columbia University Professor, Michael Taussig is one of the most innovative, distinguished, and socially engaged voices in cultural anthropology. An interdisciplinary thinker and engaging writer, Taussig's work combines aspects of ethnography, story-telling, and social theory. His publications include two Spanish-language books on the history of slavery and its aftermath, and eight English-language books on issues of slavery, hunger, commercialization of agriculture, Marxist economic theory, popular culture, folk healing, colonialisms, theories of ritual, cultural productions of terror, the state and public secrecy, museums and memory, and poor communities in Colombia. In the title essay of his most recent book, the collection Walter Benjamin's Grave (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Taussig reflects upon his own visit to Benjamin's gravesite in Port Bou on the French-Spanish border, relays accounts of Benjamin's travels as he fled the Nazis, and describes the circumstances of Benjamin's 1940 suicide. Taussig has lectured at universities, conferences, and cultural institutions around the world and has received numerous honors, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.	en_AU
dc.description.sponsorship	Transforming Cultures Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney.	en_AU
dc.language.iso	en	en_AU
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/620
dc.subject	slavery	en_AU
dc.subject	fictocriticism	en_AU
dc.subject	colour	en_AU
dc.subject	anthropology	en_AU
dc.title	Colour and Slavery	en_AU
dc.type	Recording, oral	en_AU
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

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Brief Biography: Columbia University Professor, Michael Taussig is one of the most innovative, distinguished, and socially engaged voices in cultural anthropology. An interdisciplinary thinker and engaging writer, Taussig's work combines aspects of ethnography, story-telling, and social theory. His publications include two Spanish-language books on the history of slavery and its aftermath, and eight English-language books on issues of slavery, hunger, commercialization of agriculture, Marxist economic theory, popular culture, folk healing, colonialisms, theories of ritual, cultural productions of terror, the state and public secrecy, museums and memory, and poor communities in Colombia. In the title essay of his most recent book, the collection Walter Benjamin's Grave (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Taussig reflects upon his own visit to Benjamin's gravesite in Port Bou on the French-Spanish border, relays accounts of Benjamin's travels as he fled the Nazis, and describes the circumstances of Benjamin's 1940 suicide. Taussig has lectured at universities, conferences, and cultural institutions around the world and has received numerous honors, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

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