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