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100 1 $aTaussig, Michael T.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79075321
245 10 $aMimesis and alterity :$ba particular history of the senses /$cMichael Taussig.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutlege,$c1993.
300 $axix, 299 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-290) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIn Some Way or Another One Can Protect Oneself From Evil Spirits by Portraying Them -- $g2.$tPhysiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds -- $g3.$tSpacing Out -- $g4.$tThe Golden Bough: The Magic of Mimesis -- $g5.$tThe Golden Army: The Organization of Mimesis -- $g6.$tWith the Wind of World History in Our Sails -- $g7.$tSpirit of the Mime, Spirit of the Gift -- $g8.$tMimetic Worlds: Invisible Counterparts -- $g9.$tThe Origin of the World -- $g10.$tAlterity -- $g11.$tThe Color of Alterity -- $g12.$tThe Search For the White Indian -- $g13.$tAmerica as Woman: The Magic of Western Gear -- $g14.$tThe Talking Machine -- $g15.$tHis Master's Voice -- $g16.$tReflection -- $g17.$tSympathetic Magic In A Post-Colonial Age.
520 1 $a"Mimesis: the idea of imitation. Alterity: the idea of difference, the opposition of Self and Other. In his most accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig explores these complex and often interwoven concepts. Arguing that mimesis is the nature that culture uses to create second nature, he maintains that mimesis - variously experienced in different societies - is not only a faculty but also a history. That history, Taussig writes, is deeply tied to "Euroamerican colonialism, the felt relation of the civilizing process to savagery, to aping, sensateness caught in the net of passionful images spun for several centuries by the colonial trade with wildness."" "For anthropologists, social scientists, cultural critics, artists and everyone else caught up in the enigma of the postmodern, framing the question "What is Reality" is crucial to gaining an understanding of what it is we know and who we are. Why is it important to understand that traditions are inventions and that social life is a construction when they grip us with all the force of the "natural"? And how is it that we understand reality as both real and really made up?" "In Mimesis and Alterity Taussig undertakes an eccentric history of the mimetic faculty. He moves easily from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, backwards to the fable of colonial "first-contact" and alleged mimetic prowess of "primitives," and then forward to contemporary time, when the idea of alterity is increasingly unstable. Utilizing anthropological theory, Taussig blends Latin American ethnography and colonial history with the insights of Walter Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer. Vigorous and unorthodox, Taussig's understanding of mimesis in different cultures deepens our meanings of ethnography, racism and society."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEthnology$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045201
650 0 $aImitation$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aDifference (Philosophy)$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aMimesis in art.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004653
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