Mimesis and alterity : a particular history of the senses
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Mimesis and alterity : a particular history of the senses
(Routledge classic texts in anthropology)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
First ed. published 1993
Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-219) and index
Reissued with a new preface 2018
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, to the fable of colonial 'first contact' and the alleged mimetic power of 'primitives'. Twenty years after the original publication, Taussig revisits the work in a new preface which contextualises the impact of Mimesis and Alterity. Drawing on the ideas of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer and ethnographic accounts of the Cuna, Taussig demonstrates how the history of mimesis is deeply tied to colonialism and the idea of alterity has become increasingly unstable. Vigorous and unorthodox, this cross-cultural discussion continues to deepen our understanding of the relationship between ethnography, racism and society.
Table of Contents
1. In Some Way or Another One Can Protect Oneself From Evil Spirits by Portraying Them
2. Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds
3. Spacing Out
4. The Golden Bough: The Magic of Mimesis
5. The Golden Army: The Organization of Mimesis
6. With the Wind of World History in Our Sails
7. Spirit of the Mime, Spirit of the Gift
8. Mimetic Worlds: Invisible Counterparts
9. The Origin of the World
10. Alterity
11. The Color of Alterity
12. The Search for the White Indian
13. America as Woman: The Magic of Western Gear
14. The Talking Machine
15. His Master's Voice
16. Reflection
17. Sympathetic Magic in a Post-Colonial Age
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