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Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man : a study in terror and healing Pbk. ed. by Taussig, Michael T.

Contents: “…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.…”