“…However, these readings of Taussig's ethnographies fail to account for cultural difference as alterity, which happens to be so because the implicit narrative structure shared by these readers departs from a conception of anthropology as a realist, objective, and human science dedicated to represent the "other" to a Westernized "Self." Coronil and Fausto, alongside Leal (2014), Rebuzzi (2015), and Parreiras (2020), all agree on the efficacy of Taussig's narratives to represent the counterlogics of people either not yet fully subjected to capitalism (as they appear in Devil) or who became extremely victimized by it (as in Shamanism). Under such readings, the "devil pact" in the first ethnography and the "shamanistic healing" in the second are figurative beliefs that stand as precapitalist "others," and as such, the readers of Taussig's works consider his ethnographies of the beliefs and rituals of Latin American peasants, miners, enslaved indigenous peoples, and shamans as descriptively "thin" but aesthetically "thick.…”