Corn Wolf
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226310855
Subjects: Anthropology, philosophy; Narration (rhetoric); Writing
Description: "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 trajectory. Pressured by the permanent state of emergency that imbues our times, this approach marries storytelliing with theory, thickening spiraling analysis with ethnography and putting the study of so-called primitive societies back on the anthropological agenda as a way of better understanding the sacred in every day life."