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

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

Michael Taussig

538 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 creativ...

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