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Using examples from Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wildman, discuss the ways in which violence challenges conventional modes of representation.

(a) Could we say that Casement offered a ‘realist’ representation of the Putumayo rubber boom?

(b) Could we say that the violence of the rubber boom exhaust a realist interpretation?

(c) The above two questions might be used to structure a broad answer that reflects on how violence disrupts sense making, and language, together with anthropological representation.