Michael Taussig (born 1940) is an Australian anthropologist. He received his PhD in anthropology at the London School of Economics, is a professor at Columbia University and the European Graduate School.1 His area of expertise is medical anthropology. The texts of Michael Taussig, books and articles in academic journals, have deepened in the following topics: marketing of peasant agriculture, slavery, hunger, Marxist concept demonstrations of commodity fetishism, the impact of colonialism (historical and contemporary ) on shamanism and folk cures, the relevance of modernist and postmodernist aesthetics in understanding the ritual, manufacture and writing of terror, mimesis in relation to sympathetic magic, fetishism and state secrecy, defacement (meaning iconoclasm), a daily two weeks detailing paramilitary violence, a study of a charged substance exciting seductive, evil, gold and cocaine in an ethnography-assembly of the Pacific coast of Colombia, and is currently working on a book it will be titled what color is the sacred?