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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing

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Management number 232010283 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price $13.78 Model Number 232010283
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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 Read more

ISBN10 0226790134
ISBN13 978-0226790138
Edition First Edition
Language English
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Dimensions 9.34 x 6 x 1 inches
Item Weight 1.6 pounds
Print length 538 pages
Publication date December 15, 1991

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