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Informationen zum Autor Michael Taussig is emeritus professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including And the Garden Is You and Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown , both published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Looks at the interaction between civilized and primitive people in Colombia! examines the role of the shaman! and discusses healing practices in the jungle.
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Michael Taussig is emeritus professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including
And the Garden Is You and
Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
