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

Taussig, Michael T.

 
9780226790121: Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing

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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

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Michael Taussig is the Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including The Corn Wolf and Beauty and the Beast, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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ISBN 10:  0226790134 ISBN 13:  9780226790138
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1991
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