Michael Taussig

Mimesis and Alterity

A Particular History of the Senses

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published: 1993. With new preface.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138242982
• ISBN-10: 1138242985
• Artikelnr.: 48212000

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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