About the Author

Michael Taussig is professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of several books, including Walter Benjamin's Grave and My Cocaine Museum, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"If Hunter S. Thompson had been trained by Boas in anthropology, Engels in economics, and Arendt in philosophy, he might write something like Taussig." - Publishers Weekly "Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic observation, archival history, literary theory and memoir, his books read more like beatnik novels than somber analyses of other cultures." - New York Times"