Mimesis and Alterity

A Particular History of the Senses

By:

Michael Taussig

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Paperback / softback

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.

Author Biography:

Michael Taussig is 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, USA, and is affiliated with the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

Release date Australia

May 29th, 2018

Author

Michael Taussig

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

40 Halftones, black and white

Pages

228

Series

Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology

ISBN-13

9781138242982

Product ID

25857991

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