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

Taussig, Michael

 
9780226790138: Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226790134 ISBN 13: 9780226790138
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Taussig is emeritus professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including And the Garden Is You and Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Both terror and shamanism thrive on the subversion of order and meaning. The shaman, like a dadaist painter or poet, uses the technique of montage to disrupt conventional meaning.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226790134
ISBN 13 
9780226790138
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
538
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