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Examples Of Epistemic Murk

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According to Taussig, the New World as a space of “Epistemic Murk” is the idea of how colonizers make their own reality toward Indians with their own imagined fear and the perception. This imagined fear made them to normalize their violence to Indians. The “Epistemic Murk” can be the place where the tension between truth and the fiction is existed. It shows the colonizers’ violence is not aimed for economic or social profit. For me, the best example of “Epistemic Murk” is muchachos during the Putumayo rubber boom. They are also Indians, but have power to control and monitor the other Indians. They are not only the people who controlled by strong power, but also the people who actually practiced power of violence to Indians.
As Taussig (121)
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