Re: Michael Taussig

[Debordagoria <phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> the book soon
> descended into
> something very closely resembling the elaborate hoax
> perpetrated by Carlos
> Casteñada in "Teachings of Don Juan". Both Taussig
> and Casteñada attempted
> to get into the "primitive mind" in typical 1960s
> fashion with predictable
> results.]


Besides Shamanism and a (hardly unusual) flair for
self-promotion, I doubt Taussig has much in common
with
the late Carlos Castaneda, who, after publishing his
fraudulent doctoral dissertation about the
non-existent
Don Juan, abandoned academia for a wildly successful
career as a writer of fictional accounts of ostensibly
personal experiences. And I'm quite sure Castaneda had
no genuine interest at all in "getting into the
primitive mind".
Michael Davidson


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