Main entry:

Taussig, Michael T.

Title & Author:

Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man : a study in terror and healing / Michael Taussig.

Edition:

Paperback edition

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991
©1987

Description:

xix, 517 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-502) and index.
pt. 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 -- pt. 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.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

ISBN:

0226790134 (paperback)
9780226790138 (paperback)

Subject:

Indians of South America Medicine Colombia Putumayo (Department)
Shamanism Colombia Putumayo (Department)
Rubber industry and trade Colombia History.
Peuples autochtones Médecine Colombie Putumayo.
Chamanisme Colombie Putumayo.
Caoutchouc Industrie Colombie Histoire.
Colonial influence.
Indians of South America Medicine.
Rubber industry and trade.
Shamanism.
Social conditions
Traditional medicine Colombia Putumayo (Department)
Colombia Colonial influence.
Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) Social conditions.
Colombie Influence coloniale.
Putumayo (Colombie) Conditions sociales.
Colombia.
Colombia Putumayo (Department)
Colombia Putumayo (Intendancy)
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

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298097
Call No.: BIB 244379
Status: Available