Michael Taussig is professor of anthropology at Columbia University, and worldwide known for his work on violence. He has been doing fieldwork in Colombia since 1969. In 2006, during my fieldwork, Taussig came to visit me, and stayed with me for a week. Taussig was my doctoral dissertation adviser. He is author of several books, among them: Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man, My Cocaine Museum, Law in a Lawless Land, What Color is the Sacred.