We’ll pick up one of the most heated discussions from our last session, around the figure of the shaman, but this time, let’s take a full-fledged flight into its actual operations and artfulness. We’ve prepared the following texts:

Taussig, Michael. 1987. “To Become a Healer.” In Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing, 447–467. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Clastres, Hélène. 1995. “Pajé and Karai.” In The Land-without-Evil: Tupí-Guaraní Prophetism, translated by Jacqueline Grenez Brovender, 25-42. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.