Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man

A Study in Terror and Healing

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Michael Taussig

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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

Author Biography:

Michael Taussig is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of the Meltdown and Palma Africana, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Release date Australia

December 15th, 1991

Author

Michael Taussig

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

538

Dimensions

17x24x3

ISBN-13

9780226790138

Product ID

3694089

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