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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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Details
- Description
- xix, 517 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Indians of South America > Medicine
- Rubber industry and trade
- Shamanism
- Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) __ Social conditions
- Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) > Social conditions
- History
- Colonial influence
- Social conditions
- Indiens d'Amérique > Colombie > Putumayo > Médecine
- Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
- Medicine
- Colombia > Colonial influence
- Indians of South America > Medicine > Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
- Rubber industry and trade > Colombia > History
- Colombie > Influence coloniale
- Colombia > Putumayo (Intendancy)
- Chamanisme > Colombie > Putumayo
- Putumayo (Intendancy)
- Putumayo (Colombie) > Conditions sociales
- Caoutchouc > Industrie > Colombie > Histoire
- Colombia __ Colonial influence
- Shamanism > Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
- History
- 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) -- MedicineShamanism -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy)Colombia -- Colonial influenceRubber industry and trade -- Colombia -- HistoryPutumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) -- Social conditions
- LCCN
- 86011410
- Research Call Number
- HBC 87-1468