Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, maps, b&w illus, bibliography, index, pp xix, 517. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition in like d.j.
An important and influential study of colonialism as it was carried out in South America. "In drawing on his several years of experience with shamanic healing in the southwest of Colombia. Taussig adapts the arxist aesthetics of Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin to provide a strikingly original formulation of the relations between magic and colonialism, imagemaking and power." (dustjacket). Item #106399
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