Michael Taussig (born 3 April 1940) is an Australian anthropologist, born in Sydney. He earned a medical degree from the University of Sydney, received his PhD. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and is a professor at Columbia University and European Graduate School. Although he has published on medical anthropology, he is best known for his engagement with Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin. He won a Berlin Prize 2007 from the American Academy in Berlin.
Read more about Michael Taussig: The Devil and Commodity Fetishism (1980), Shamanism, Colonialism, and The Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (1987), The Nervous System (1992), Mimesis and Alterity (1993), Publications
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