Michael Taussig is professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man and My Cocaine Museum, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"If you want to know what it is like to live in a country where the state has disintegrated, this moving book by an anthropologist well known for his writings on murderous Colombia will tell you." - Eric Hobsbawm "This is a horrifying and immediate first-person look at globalism's dark side, done with humor, despair, and sympathy." - Publishers Weekly"

Michael Taussig is professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man and My Cocaine Museum, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"If you want to know what it is like to live in a country where the state has disintegrated, this moving book by an anthropologist well known for his writings on murderous Colombia will tell you." - Eric Hobsbawm "This is a horrifying and immediate first-person look at globalism's dark side, done with humor, despair, and sympathy." - Publishers Weekly"