# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-taussig
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:20:34.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-taussig"
name: "Michael Taussig"
slug: "michael-taussig"
description: "Michael T. Taussig is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University. He is best known for his engagement with Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin. Taussig has also published texts on medical anthropology."
tagline: "Australian anthropologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.576461333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Тауссиг, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "مايكل تاوسيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Taussig"
    title: "Michael Taussig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Taussig"
    title: "Michael Taussig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Taussig"
    title: "Michael Taussig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Taussig"
    title: "Michael Taussig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Taussig"
    title: "Michael Taussig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q980193"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump