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

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Author(s): Michael T. Taussig
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1986

Language: English
Pages: 517
City: Chicago
Tags: Indians of South America -- Medicine -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy);Shamanism -- Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy);Rubber industry and trade -- Colombia -- History;Colombia -- Colonial influence;Putumayo (Colombia : Intendancy) -- Social conditions;Colonial influence;Indians of South America -- Medicine;Rubber industry and trade;Shamanism;Social conditions;Colombia;Colombia -- Putumayo (Intendancy)

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.