Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man
Subtitle: a study in terror and healing
By: Michael Taussig.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Medicine -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy); Shamanism -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy); Rubber industry and trade -- Colombia -- History; Colombia -- Colonial influence; Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) -- Social conditions
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [495]-502.
Includes index.