Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the SensesPsychology Press, 1993 - 299 páginas In Mimesis and Alterity Taussig undertakes and 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' 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 meaning of ethnography, racism and society. |
Contenido
In Some Way or Another One Can Protect Oneself | 1 |
From Evil Spirits by Portraying Them | 12 |
Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds | 19 |
Spacing Out | 33 |
The Magic of Mimesis | 44 |
The Organization of Mimesis | 59 |
With the Wind of World History in Our Sails | 70 |
Spirit of the Mime Spirit of the Gift | 88 |
Alterity | 129 |
The Color of Alterity | 144 |
The Search For the White Indian | 162 |
The Magic of Western Gear | 176 |
The Talking Machine | 193 |
His Masters Voice | 212 |
Reflection | 236 |
Sympathetic Magic In A PostColonial Age | 250 |
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