Upcoming Lecture in the Anthropology Department:

On Aesthetics, Beauty and Terror

Michael Taussig
Professor of Anthropology from Columbia University will present a paper on the considerations of cosmetic surgery--which he calls "cosmic surgery"--
among poor young women in Colombia and connections that he discerns to paramilitary
violence.

Monday,
May 16th, 2011, 12:00-1:15 pm
Conference Room, Bldg. 50, Rm. 51A

For more information see:
http://anthroCASA.stanford.edu BROWN BAG FORUM
http://anthropology.stanford.edu

Michael Taussig is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author
of the following: What Color is the Sacred?(2009). Walter Benjamin’s Grave (2006). My
Cocaine Museum (2004). Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in a Colombian
Town (2003). Defacement(1999). Magic of the State (1997). Mimesis and Alterity: A
Particular History of the Senses (1993). The Nervous System (1992). Shamanism,
Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (1987). The Devil and
Commodity Fetishism in South America (1980).