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Author Taussig, Michael T., author.

Title Mimesis and alterity : a particular history of the senses / Michael Taussig
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (246 pages)
Series Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology
Routledge classic texts in anthropology.
Contents A report to the academy -- In some way or another one can protect oneself from evil spirits by portraying them -- Physiognomic aspects of visual worlds -- Spacing out -- The Golden Bough : the magic of mimesis -- The Golden Army : the organization of mimesis -- With the wind of world history in our sails -- Spirit of the mime, spirit of the gift -- Mimetic worlds, invisible counterparts -- The origin of the world -- Alterity -- The color of alterity -- The search for the white Indian -- American as woman : the magic of Western gear -- The talking machine -- His master's voice -- Reflection -- Sympathetic magic in a post-colonial age
Notes "First edition published 1993, reissued with a new preface 2018"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnology -- Philosophy.
Imitation -- Cross-cultural studies
Difference (Philosophy) -- Cross-cultural studies
Mimesis in art.
mimesis.
Difference (Philosophy)
Ethnology -- Philosophy
Imitation
Mimesis in art
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351853873
9781315227689
1315227681
1351853872