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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
Michael Taussig“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.”—Stephen G. Bunker, Social Science Quarterly
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
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