Late Western colonialism often relied on the practice of imitating indigenous forms of rule in order to maintain power; conversely, indigenous polities could imitate Western sociopolitical forms to their own benefit. Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.…mehr
Late Western colonialism often relied on the practice of imitating indigenous forms of rule in order to maintain power; conversely, indigenous polities could imitate Western sociopolitical forms to their own benefit. Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.
Patrice Ladwig is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge.
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Introduction: Mimetic Governmentality, Colonialism, and the State Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque Chapter 1. Dances with Heads: Parasitic Mimesis and the Government of Savagery in Colonial East Timor Ricardo Roque Chapter 2. Variants of Frontier Mimesis: Colonial Encounter and Intercultural Interaction in the Lao Vietnamese Uplands Oliver Tappe Chapter 3. The Hut-Hospital as Project and as Practice: Mimeses, Alterities, and Colonial Hierarchies Cristiana Bastos Chapter 4. Imitations of Buddhist Statecraft: The Patronage of Lao Buddhism and the Reconstruction of Relic Shrines and Temples in Colonial French Indochina Patrice Ladwig Chapter 5. Colonial Mimesis and Animal Breeding: Karakul Sheep in Southwestern Angola Tiago Saraiva Chapter 6. The Colonial State and Carnival: The Complexity and Ambiguity of Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Christoph Kohl Chapter 7. Mimetic Primitivism: Notes on the Conceptual History of Mimesis Patrice Ladwig Postscript: The Risks and Failures of Imitation Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque
Introduction: Mimetic Governmentality, Colonialism, and the State Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque Chapter 1. Dances with Heads: Parasitic Mimesis and the Government of Savagery in Colonial East Timor Ricardo Roque Chapter 2. Variants of Frontier Mimesis: Colonial Encounter and Intercultural Interaction in the Lao Vietnamese Uplands Oliver Tappe Chapter 3. The Hut-Hospital as Project and as Practice: Mimeses, Alterities, and Colonial Hierarchies Cristiana Bastos Chapter 4. Imitations of Buddhist Statecraft: The Patronage of Lao Buddhism and the Reconstruction of Relic Shrines and Temples in Colonial French Indochina Patrice Ladwig Chapter 5. Colonial Mimesis and Animal Breeding: Karakul Sheep in Southwestern Angola Tiago Saraiva Chapter 6. The Colonial State and Carnival: The Complexity and Ambiguity of Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Christoph Kohl Chapter 7. Mimetic Primitivism: Notes on the Conceptual History of Mimesis Patrice Ladwig Postscript: The Risks and Failures of Imitation Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque
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