Anthropoligist Levi Appears on National Geographic’s “Taboo” Show
Carleton professor of anthropology Jay Levi appeared on the Jan. 24 episode of National Geographic’s “Taboo” show, in an episode entitled “Freaky Remedies.” The fourth episode of season eight touched on the extreme and rare remedies people seek to cure asthma, infertility and pain, among other ailments. Levi comments on the use of a guinea pig sacrifice in Peru’s Andes Mountains, where the show’s subject is seeking an ancient animal sacrifice to remedy his health problems that couldn’t be cured through surgery. “The patient has to have faith in the techniques and power of the shaman for it to work,” Levi says in the show. “If performed by a shaman, then it does work, especially, and perhaps only, if you believe.”
Carleton professor of anthropology Jay Levi appeared on the Jan. 24 episode of National Geographic’s “Taboo” show, in an episode entitled “Freaky Remedies.” The fourth episode of season eight touched on the extreme and rare remedies people seek to cure asthma, infertility and pain, among other ailments. Levi comments on the use of a guinea pig sacrifice in Peru’s Andes Mountains, where the show’s subject is seeking an ancient animal sacrifice to remedy his health problems that couldn’t be cured through surgery. “The patient has to have faith in the techniques and power of the shaman for it to work,” Levi says in the show. “If performed by a shaman, then it does work, especially, and perhaps only, if you believe.”