Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man : A Study in Terror and Healing
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Product NameShamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man : A Study in Terror and Healing
ManufacturerUniv of Chicago Pr
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TitleShamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man : A Study in Terror and Healing
ISBN0226790134
Author(s)Michael Taussig
Release Date1991-11-01, 1991-12-15
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EAN9780226790138
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1 Star Rating  "A Deconstructionist Hodge-Podge"2009-02-01
- Reviewed By Ryan E. Holroyd from Edmonton, AB
It cannot be said that this is an unintelligent book, or that there is nothing of value within. But, as a unified whole, this is an exceedingly tedious and almost pointless book. Taussig is a committed deconstructionist and his antipathy for structuralism has inspired him to write a book that's organisation is as unsystematic as possible.

The book is divided into two parts 'Terror' and 'Healing'. Terror is only the first one hundred forty or so pages, but it is by far the best part of the book. It deals (more or less) with the presence of a Peruvian rubber company's employees in the Putumayo region of Colombia in the early part of the 20th Century. These employees were supposed to be forcing the local native population to collect rubber for them, but more often just killed the natives for amusement. As a piece of historical writing, it isn't bad. The sources are decent (explorers and a British Parliamentary report by Roger Casement who interviewed some non-native labourers), and it comes close to making a coherent argument. Basically, the white employees were terrified by the Putumayo valley because of the jungle, the rumoured savagery of the natives, etc. Their own fear and guilt was transferred onto the natives, whose savagery they mythologised, and then mirrored themselves (p. 133).

This is not to say that this understanding of the history that Taussig has created is particularly well supported by the evidence he presents. Some of the whites in the region were slaughtering the natives in horrible ways, and the some of the whites did believe that some of natives were cannibals, but this does not prove that the particular whites who were slaughtering natives necessarily "mirrored the horror of the savagery they both feared and fictionalised" (p. 133). Still, at least it's reasonably clear what Taussig is driving at here.

The second part, `Healing', has only the most tenuous connection to 'Terror'. It is a long, rambling, disorganised series of stories about modern day shamans who live or have lived in the Putumayo district and their yage healing rituals they perfom. The text is occasionally interrupted by a sentence, or a paragraph, or a chapter of Taussig's philosophical insights that, after the post-modernist jargon, his semi-poetic metaphors, and quotes from 20th century philosophers are sorted out, often says very little (as an aside, if you are not familiar with the work of Walter Benjamin, the book will be much more difficult). As best I can tell, the point he is struggling to make is that the natives (the colonised) and the whites (the colonisers) since their first contact have created a mutual and implicit understanding of their shared society. This understanding has granted the native a reputation for both savagery and magical- maybe even divine- wisdom that makes their shamans at once reviled and sought after by all classes of the society as healers (see p. 467 for what is probably the clearest statement of this thesis).

Making the book even more irritating is the fact that some of the disjointed bits are quite interesting in and of themselves. The first hand accounts of Taussig's experiences living and travelling with these Putumayo shamans are fascinating, and probably incredibly valuable for any student studying modern South American shamanism. Chapter Ten, 'The Wild Woman of the Forest Becomes Our Lady of Remedies', in which he compares official church histories of miraculous events and figures in Colombian history with how the natives understand these events and figures is simply good work.

If Taussig had chosen to make his book about the rubber company atrocities and how they affected the Putumayo region in concrete ways, or about religious imagery, or an analysis of how Benjamin's social theories could be applied to Colombia, or even just a book of stories about him and his shaman friends getting high in yage healing rituals, it could have been a palatable read. But his insistence that it must be a 'montage', which in practice seems to mean a random hodge podge where he writes whatever he feels like wherever he feels like, makes this the equivalent of a self-indulgent experimental art house film, and probably the best argument against deconstructionism I have ever read.
 
4 Star Rating  "Difficult, but worth the effort."2006-02-23
- Reviewed By anthrokev from Notre Dame, IN USA
Michael Taussig takes a stance towards "terrorism" not common in today's world. By trying to trace the roots of this phenomenon, he brings to light many explanations and understandings many of us fail to realize, only because we have not come across them before. I give this book four stars instead of five simply because it is a difficult read, but if you are interested in what we, today, call "terrorism" and are willing to take the time to plunge into this book, then it will certainly be worth your while.
 
5 Star Rating  "Taussig takes one on a terrifying, gut churning, horrifying"1999-02-06
- Reviewed By Anonymous
trip through the rubber boom of the 1800's in South America. From detailed historical survey to his first hand accounts of life around the Amazon, he never ceases to confront the reader with reality. His study is comprehensive in that he brings attention to all different aspects of the European, Indian and African people who live there. The study helps integrate the anthropological view of society to consider the religious, political, economic and moral as part of the collective consciousness of a community. Powerful book.
 
5 Star Rating  "Much more than a simple ethnographic investigation..."1998-01-28
- Reviewed By Henri Edward Dongieux from Decatur, GA, USA
Arguably one of the most accomplished anthropologists working today, Michael Taussig provides an intensely individualistic bricolage of literary, historical, and ethnological interpretations of his many years of fieldwork in the Upper Amazon. One of the most detailed and poignant accounts of shamanism in its cultural context - will very soon be regarded as a classic.
 
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