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

**Brand:** michael taussig
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- **What is this?** Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing by michael taussig
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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing

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## Customer Reviews

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    Profound and resonant
  

*by J***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 5, 2012*

Generally expressions of shamanism are associated with the lower classes of society who may be subject to great systematic oppression. This reality is exemplified in Michael Taussig's description of the colonization and slavery the Colombians.Taussig speaks of wildness as a "death space of signification", which implies that rather than expressing subservience to the will of the colonial powers, shamans eliminate meaning as they turn away from civilization.The "death spaces of signification" - the consequences of a culture of oppression - are a means of negation of the oppression though accepting death.There are strong conceptual associations with the work of Dambudzo Marechera, especially his shamanistic outlook in 
  
Black Sunlight (Penguin Classics)







  
  
    .One also notes that Georges Bataille's writing, for instance in 
  
Unfinished System Of Nonknowledge







  
  
     upholds the value of seeking within a different mode of signification that has the appearance of being "nothing".Whereas death or "nothing" may seem to be the object of shamanistic seeking, one is advised to look much more deeply.

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    Shamanisme
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 1, 2020*

Good book. Trusted seller. Fast delivery.

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    this was a text book that a friend was pretty wild about, guess that you had to be there
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2013*

I chugged through bulk of it, I'm not an anthropologist....Reading it with some other anthropology books that friends have suggested might fill a large void in my education.

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