Abstract

URIBE TOBON, Carlos Alberto. EL RETORNO DE MATEO MINA A LA SELVA SIN LEY. Antipod. Rev. Antropol. Arqueol. [online]. 2006, n.2, pp.127-153. ISSN 1900-5407.

Michael Taussig is one the most influential English-speaking anthropologists working on Colombia. Based upon his Law in a Lawless Land, the author of the present essay evaluates Taussig's work as a foreign scholar who reproduces and underlines in his anthropology -both methodologically and in his writing- a series of representations of power and violence in Colombia. The essay is a critical analysis of what an anthropologist is to be within a contemporary setting of war, pain, and suffering.

Keywords : Michael Taussig; Colombia; representations on violence; Walter  Benjamin.

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