THE CORN WOLF

Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, The Corn Wolf pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the nervous system approach to writing and truth that has characterized his traje ctory. Pressured by the permanent state of emergency that imbues our times, this approach marries storytelling with theory, thickeni ng spiraling analysis with ethnography and putting the study of so-called primitive societies back on the anthropological agenda as a way of bet...[Leer más]