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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226790134

ISBN-139780226790138

eBay Product ID (ePID)114528

Product Key Features

Number of Pages538 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameShamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man : a Study in Terror and Healing

SubjectShamanism, Folklore & Mythology, General, Latin America / South America

Publication Year1991

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBody, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History

AuthorMichael Taussig

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight28 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition19

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal986.1/6300498

Table Of ContentMaps 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

SynopsisWorking 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, 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, 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

LC Classification NumberF2269.1.P87T38 1991