Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing by Micha

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Looks at the interaction between civilized and primitive people in Colombia, examines the role of the shaman, and discusses healing practices in the jungle.

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Working with the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man, Taussig reveals not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real."This extraordinary book . . . will encourage ever more critical and creative explorations."—Fernando Coronil, [I]American Journal of Sociology[/I]"Taussig has brought a formidable collection of data from arcane literary, journalistic, and biographical sources to bear on . . . questions of evil, torture, and politically institutionalized hatred and terror. His intent is laudable, and much of the book is brilliant, both in its discovery of how particular people perpetrated evil and others interpreted it."—Stehen G. Bunker, Social Science Quarterly

Author Biography

Michael Taussig is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of the Meltdown and Palma Africana, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Maps Author's Note Acknowledgments Part One: Terror 1. Culture of Terror, Space of Death 2. Casement to Grey 3. The Economy of Terror 4. Jungle and Savagery 5. The Image of the Auca : Ur-Mythology and Colonial Modernism 6. The Colonial Mirror of Production Part Two: Healing 7. A Case of Fortune and Misfortune 8. Magical Realism 9. Las Tres Potencias : The Magic of the Races 10. The Wild Woman of the Forest Becomes Our Lady of Remedies 11. Wildness 12. Indian Fat 13. Surplus Value 14. Hunting Magic 15. The Book of Magia 16. Filth and the Magic of the Modern 17. Revolutionary Plants 18. On the Indian's Back: The Moral Topography of the Andes and Its Conquest 19. Even the Dogs Were Crying 20. The Old Soldier Remembers 21. Toughness and Tenderness in the Wild Man's Lair: The Everyday as Impenetrable, the Impenetrable as Everyday 22. Casemiro and the Tiger 23. Priests and Shamans 24. History as Sorcery 25. Envy and Implicit Social Knowledge 26. The Whirlpool 27. Montage 28. To Become a Healer 29. Marlene Notes Bibliography Index

Details ISBN0226790134 Author Michael Taussig Short Title SHAMANISM COLONIALISM & THE WI Pages 538 Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0226790134 ISBN-13 9780226790138 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1991 Imprint University of Chicago Press Subtitle A Study in Terror and Healing Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations 104ill.3M. DOI 10.1604/9780226790138 UK Release Date 1991-12-15 AU Release Date 1991-12-15 NZ Release Date 1991-12-15 US Release Date 1991-12-15 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Publication Date 1991-12-15 DEWEY 306.6 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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