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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man Michael Taussig

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man By Michael Taussig

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man by Michael Taussig


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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.

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man Summary

Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man by Michael Taussig

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

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GOR010778849
9780226790138
0226790134
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man by Michael Taussig
Used - Like New
Paperback
The University of Chicago Press
1991-12-15
538
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