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Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man : a study in terror and healing

Title
Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man : a study in terror and healing / Michael Taussig.
Author
Taussig, Michael T.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991, ©1987.

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Description
xix, 517 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-502) and index.
Contents
Part. 1, Terror -- Culture and terror, space of death Casement to grey -- The economy of terror -- Jungle and savagery -- The image of the Auca : Ur-mythology and colonial modernism -- The colonial mirror of production -- Part 2, Healing -- A case of fortune and misfortune -- Magical realism -- Las tres potencias : the magic of the races -- The wild woman of the forest becomes our lady of remedies -- Wildness -- Indian fat -- Surplus value -- Hunting magic -- The book of Magia -- Filth and the magic of the modern -- Revolutionary plants -- On the Indian's back : the moral topography of the Andes and its conquest -- Even the dogs were crying -- The old soldier remembers -- Toughness and tenderness in the wild man's liar : the everyday as impenetrable, the impenetrable as everyday -- Casemiro and the tiger -- Priests and Shamans -- History as sorcery -- Envy and implicit social knowledge -- The whirlpool -- Montage -- To become a healer -- Marlene.
Call Number
HBC 87-1468
ISBN
  • 0226790134
  • 9780226790138
OCLC
30851431
Author
Taussig, Michael T.
Title
Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man : a study in terror and healing / Michael Taussig.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991, ©1987.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-502) and index.
Indexed Term
Indians of South America -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy) -- Medicine
Shamanism -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy)
Colombia -- Colonial influence
Rubber industry and trade -- Colombia -- History
Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) -- Social conditions
LCCN
86011410
Research Call Number
HBC 87-1468
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