Michael Taussig

Mimesis and Alterity (eBook, ePUB)

A Particular History of the Senses

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing upon such diverse sources as theories of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer, research on the Cuna Indians, and theories of colonialism and postcolonialism, Taussig shows that the history of mimesis is deeply tied to colonialism, and more specifically, to the colonial trade's construction of "e;savages."e; With analysis that is vigorous, unorthodox, and often breathtaking, Taussig's cross-cultural discussion of mimesis deepens our understanding of the relationship between ethnography, racism and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136645457
• Artikelnr.: 49376618

Autorenporträt

Michael Taussig is 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, USA, and is affiliated with the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

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