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Mimesis and Alterity - A Particular History of the Senses (Hardcover)
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Mimesis and Alterity - A Particular History of the Senses (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology
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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.
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