Getting high with Benjamin and Burroughs

Authors

  • Michael Taussig Columbia University
  • Felipe Neis Araujo University of Liberia, Department of Sociology, ANthropology and Social Work

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8034.2019v21n2p193

Abstract

The author explores Walter Benjamin’s experiences with hashish and William Burroughs’s experiences with yage?, reflecting about the influence of these substances on the authors’s narrative styles. The discussion revolves around the importance of the authors’ trips – both in the sense of physical displacements and the effects of the substances they consumed – for their ways of collecting and inventing stories and ethnographic descriptions.

Author Biographies

Michael Taussig, Columbia University

University of London, PhD, 1974. London School of Economics, MSc in Sociology, 1969. University of Sydney, MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery), 1964. Research Interests: Art, Objects, Public Makings, Language, Social Theory, Critical Theory, Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Racial Capitalism, Text, Translation, Writing, Aesthetics, Theater, Ritual, Performance

 

Felipe Neis Araujo, University of Liberia, Department of Sociology, ANthropology and Social Work

Doutor em antropologia social pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - PPGAS/UFSC. Professor no Department of Sociology, ANthropology and Social Work da University of Liberia.

Published

2019-12-31

How to Cite

TAUSSIG, Michael; ARAUJO, Felipe Neis. Getting high with Benjamin and Burroughs. Ilha Revista de Antropologia, Florianópolis, v. 21, n. 2, p. 193–207, 2019. DOI: 10.5007/2175-8034.2019v21n2p193. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ilha/article/view/2175-8034.2019v21n2p193. Acesso em: 31 aug. 2024.

Issue

Section

Translation