Mimesis and alterity : a particular history of the senses /

En su obra más ambiciosa y lograda hasta la fecha, Michael Taussig aborda una historia de la mimesis, la práctica de la imitación y su relación con la alteridad, la oposición del yo y el otro. Basándose en fuentes tan diversas como las teorías de Benjamin, Adorno y Horckheimer, la investigación sobr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taussig, Michael, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 : In Some Way or Another One Can Protect Oneself From the Spirits By Portraying Them. Chapter 2 : Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds Chapter 3 : Spacing Out. Chapter 4 : The Golden Bough: The Magic of Mimesis. Chapter 5 : The Golden Army: The Organization of Mimesis. Chapter 6 : With the Wind of World History in Our Sails. Chapter 7 : Spirit of the Mime, Spirit of the Gift. Chapter 8 : Mimetic Worlds, Invisible Counterparts. Chapter 9 : The Origin Of the World. Chapter 10 : Alterity. Chapter 11 : The Color of Alterity. Chapter 12 : The Search for the White Indian. Chapter 13 : America As Woman: The Magic of Western Gear. Chapter 14 : The Talking Machine. Chapter 15 : His Master’s Voice. Chapter 16 : Reflection. Chapter 17 : Sympathetic Magic in a Post-Colonial Age .