عنوان

Mimesis and alterity :

شابک

0415906865

شابک

0415906873

شابک

9780415906869

شابک

9780415906876

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Mimesis and alterity :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a particular history of the senses /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michael Taussig

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xix, 299 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index

متن يادداشت

1. In some way or another one can protect oneself from evil spirits by portraying them -- 2. Physiognomic aspects of visual worlds -- 3. Spacing out -- 4. The golden bough: the magic of mimesis -- 5. The golden army: the organization of mimesis -- 6. With the wind of world history in our sails -- 7. Spirit of the mime, spirit of the gift -- 8. Mimetic worlds: invisible counterparts -- 9. The origin of the world -- 10. Alterity -- 11. The color of alterity -- 12. The search for the White Indian -- 13. America as woman: the magic of Western gear -- 14. The talking machine -- 15. His master's voice -- 16. Reflection -- 17. Sympathetic magic in a post-colonial age

بدون عنوان

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متن يادداشت

Mimesis: the idea of imitation. Alterity: the idea of difference, the opposition of Self and Other. In his most accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig explores these complex and often interwoven concepts. Arguing that mimesis is the nature that culture uses to create second nature, he maintains that mimesis - variously experienced in different societies - is not only a faculty but also a history. That history, Taussig writes, is deeply tied to "Euroamerican colonialism, the felt relation of the civilizing process to savagery, to aping, sensateness caught in the net of passionful images spun for several centuries by the colonial trade with wildness." For anthropologists, social scientists, cultural critics, artists and everyone else caught up in the enigma of the postmodern, framing the question "What is Reality" is crucial to gaining an understanding of what it is we know and who we are. Why is it important to understand that traditions are inventions and that social life is a construction when they grip us with all the force of the "natural"? And how is it that we understand reality as both real and really made up? In Mimesis and Alterity Taussig undertakes an eccentric history of the mimetic faculty. He moves easily from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, backwards to the fable of colonial "first-contact" and alleged mimetic prowess of "primitives," and then forward to contemporary time, when the idea of alterity is increasingly unstable. Utilizing anthropological theory, Taussig blends Latin American ethnography and colonial history with the insights of Walter Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer. Vigorous and unorthodox, Taussig's understanding of mimesis in different cultures deepens our meanings of ethnography, racism and society

موضوع مستند نشده

Difference (Philosophy), Cross-cultural studies

موضوع مستند نشده

Ethnology-- Philosophy

موضوع مستند نشده

Imitation, Cross-cultural studies

موضوع مستند نشده

Mimesis in art

موضوع مستند نشده

Constructivisme

موضوع مستند نشده

Culturele identiteit

موضوع مستند نشده

Cuna (volk)

موضوع مستند نشده

Differentiefilosofie

موضوع مستند نشده

Mimesis

موضوع مستند نشده

Representatie (algemeen)

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Taussig, Michael T

تاريخ عمليات

20160712054929.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y