My Cocaine Museum

Author(s): Michael T. Taussig

Non-Fiction

Michael Taussig uses a make-believe Cocaine Museum, which is a parody of the Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, to illuminate the largely unacknowledged history of Indian and African Colombian miners, now being drawn into cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast.


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Michael Taussig is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books, including Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

General Fields

  • : 9780226790091
  • : 24015
  • : University of Chicago Press
  • : 07 June 2004
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Michael T. Taussig
  • : Paperback