Sluka 12: "Among anthropologists, Michael Taussig has led the way in the analysis of terror as a cultural system, and by his seminal suggestion that anthropologists should 'write back against terror' with a 'poetics of destruction and revelation' that "fight[s] with words in and against the silence imposed by the arbiters of discourse who beat out a new reality in the cells where torturer and tortured come together' (1987:4, 9; also 1984, 1992). Taussig's work has been compelling to anthropologists who want to write against terror because of his ability to take a principled moral stance against political torture and murder, while maintaining the highest standards of anthropological research."