Kolonialna mimesis: od „dzikiego” do proletariusza. Antropologia Michaela Taussiga w perspektywie Benjaminowskiego mesjanizmu
Colonial mimesis: from the "wild" to proletarian. Anthropology of Michael Taussig in the perspective of Benjamin messianism

Summary/Abstract: Michael Taussig is a contemporary anthropologist, whose main interest lay in South- -American peasentry and it’s relevence to world’s capitalist system. His writings deal with problems which are the goals of so-called „postcolonial theory” but to this day it wasn’t clearly reconsidered. My aim is to re-think the Taussigian „culture of death”/”space of death” concepts in perspective of Walter Benjamin’s messianic theory, but to do it with accordance to the question: what could postcolonial theory learn from it? It is important to rewrite the history of postcolonial theory, but with being aware of falling into one of two main aporias: marxism and postmodernism. The shamanic ritual opens for us a space from where the dead are calling the living and thus, transcends any material culture into some kind of endless passage of ancestors.

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