Tuesday 27 October 2009, 18.30–20.00

Since his first book, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in Latin America, in 1980, Michael Taussig has set about transforming anthropology into a critical reflection on Western societies, via an increasingly radical combination of fieldwork and ‘ficto-criticism’. This talk will examine the status of drawings in anthropological fieldwork notebooks as ‘art’ and ‘politics’. Michael Taussig is Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£8 (£6 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes drinks afterwards