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

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

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Description
  1. xix, 517 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Indians of South America > Medicine
  2. Rubber industry and trade
  3. Shamanism
  4. Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) __ Social conditions
  5. Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) > Social conditions
  6. History
  7. Colonial influence
  8. Social conditions
  9. Indiens d'Amérique > Colombie > Putumayo > Médecine
  10. Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
  11. Medicine
  12. Colombia > Colonial influence
  13. Indians of South America > Medicine > Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
  14. Rubber industry and trade > Colombia > History
  15. Colombie > Influence coloniale
  16. Colombia > Putumayo (Intendancy)
  17. Chamanisme > Colombie > Putumayo
  18. Putumayo (Intendancy)
  19. Putumayo (Colombie) > Conditions sociales
  20. Caoutchouc > Industrie > Colombie > Histoire
  21. Colombia __ Colonial influence
  22. Shamanism > Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
  23. History
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. HBC 87-1468
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-502) and index.
Author
  1. Taussig, Michael T.
Title
  1. Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man : a study in terror and healing / Michael Taussig.
Imprint
  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991, ©1987.
Edition
  1. Paperback edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-502) and index.
Indexed term
  1. Indians of South America -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy) -- Medicine
  2. Shamanism -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy)
  3. Colombia -- Colonial influence
  4. Rubber industry and trade -- Colombia -- History
  5. Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) -- Social conditions
LCCN
  1. 86011410
ISBN
  1. 0226790134
  2. 9780226790138
Research call number
  1. HBC 87-1468
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