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

Name: Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man A Study in Terror and Healing
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ISBN: 9780226790138

ISBN-10: 0226790134

ISBN-13: 9780226790138

Edition: 1991

Authors: Michael Taussig

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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.…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 538
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.09" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.584



Maps


Author's Note


Acknowledgments



Terror



Culture of Terror, Space of Death



Casement to Grey



The Economy of Terror



Jungle and Savagery



The Image of the Auca: Ur-Mythology and Colonial Modernism



The Colonial Mirror of Production



Healing



A Case of Fortune and Misfortune



Magical Realism



Las Tres Potencias: The Magic of the Races



The Wild Woman of the Forest Becomes Our Lady of Remedies



Wildness



Indian Fat



Surplus Value



Hunting Magic



The Book of Magia



Filth and the Magic of the Modern



Revolutionary Plants



On the Indian's Back: The Moral Topography of the Andes and Its Conquest



Even the Dogs Were Crying



The Old Soldier Remembers



Toughness and Tenderness in the Wild Man's Lair: The Everyday as Impenetrable, the Impenetrable as Everyday



Casemiro and the Tiger



Priests and Shamans



History as Sorcery



Envy and Implicit Social Knowledge



The Whirlpool



Montage



To Become a Healer



Marlene


Notes


Bibliography


Index