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Book SynopsisRecords visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. This title exhibits Taussig's characteristic verve and intellectual audacity, that is combined with a revelatory sense of intimacy.
Trade Review"In the course of reflecting on shamanism and the Native cultures of the Americas, and the relationship of symbolism, drugs, and color, and introducing such interesting concepts as 'preemptively apocalyptic knowledge' and the bodily unconsciousness, the author offers no less than an ethnology of color.... It is also beautifully poetic, thoroughly rational, and an excellent read." -Choice "Michael Taussig has done it again. As with his previous books, Taussig has produced a unique account that takes readers on a journey-this time into the 'color of history'-that is electrifying, surprising, at times disconcerting and unsettling, but ultimately inspiring." -American Anthropologist"
