Chapter 1 Why the Nervous System?; Chapter 2 Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege; Chapter 3 Violence And Resistance In The Americas: The Legacy Of Conquest; Chapter 4 An Australian Hero; Chapter 5 Cane Toads: an Unnatural History; Chapter 6 Reification and The Consciousness of The Patient; Chapter 7 Maleficium :State Fetishism; Chapter 8 Tactility and Distraction; Chapter 9 Homesickness & Dada;
Michael Taussig is Professor at Columbia University.
"Taussig's masterful essays should be read by any scholar and in any class concerned with an anthropology of the present." -- American Anthropologist
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