Michael Taussig: "Mooning Texas"
b'\\u201cMooning Texas\\u201d \\u2013 an adventure story involving social energy + art + Emile Durkheim\\u2019s \\u201ctake\\u201d on Mauss + Hubert\\u2019s \\u201ctake\\u201d on mana + the creativity of gossip.\\n\\nMichael Taussig, professor of anthropology at Columbia University, was dubbed by the New York Times as \\u201cAnthropology\\u2019s Alternative Radical.\\u201d Taussig has been doing fieldwork since 1969. He has written on the commercialization of peasant agriculture; slavery; hunger; the working of commodity fetishism; colonialism on \\u201cshamanism\\u201d and folk healing; the relevance of modernism and post-modernist aesthetics for the understanding of ritual; the making, talking, and writing of terror; and mimesis. He has also written \\u201ca study of exciting substance loaded with seduction and evil, gold and cocaine, in a montage-ethnography of the Pacific Coast of Colombia.\\u201d\\n\\nIntroduced by Prof. Ian Condry, Global Studies and Languages, MIT.\\n\\nPresented by the Dissolve Inequality series and the Latin American Studies Forum of MIT Global Studies and Languages.'