Talk:Michael Taussig

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Don't just delete all of the changes we've made (under taussigportal then). They are a bit rough, but a lot better than the nothing that was here. If anything, edit them, make suggestions, etc. We're actually from a group of students that just did an independent study on him, and this was part of our final project. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Miceinthelemonfields (talk • contribs).
 * Hello there: It seems I reverted the last attempt to add material to the page because apparently I thought it was copied and pasted from elsewhere, but I didn't really use a good edit summary, which was my mistake--sorry!
 * Here's the advice part: 1) A passage on mimesis would be a great addition to this article. However, it should be written specifically for this article, in your own words 2) the book reviews should be written in a way that is far more factual. For instance, this:
 * While the book might be slightly challenging to read, given the sophistication and obscurity of Taussig’s language, it is a piece full of valuable anthropological accounts and strong philosophical thinking that gives us comprehensive X-ray of our society. It is work committed to humanity.
 * violates Wikipedia's policies on content (see Neutral point of view and No original research). When writing for Wikipedia, you shouldn't be telling the reader what you thought about the subject, but rather what everyone else had to say about it.--Birdmessenger 10:33, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikified as part of the Wikification wikiproject! JubalHarshaw 14:33, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

public secret
I encountered Taussig's name in connection with his concept of the "public secret" as an ostensible oxymoron. Hope someone who knows his work can put in a section on that. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, Taussig wrote the book Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative, published 1999, about "public secrets." He discusses many authors such as Hegel, Freud, Nietszche, Bataille, and uses several examples to characterize the "public secret" and the "negative sacred," by which he means the power that acts of defacement contains. It's a great work and I'm surprised it isn't listed on this page. Ditto for My Cocaine Museum, a book he wrote about the cocaine trade's effects on South American societies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.202.192.229 (talk) 23:51, 2 January 2013 (UTC)