Mimesis and alterity : a particular history of the senses /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Taussig, Michael T.
Imprint:	New York : Routledge, 1993.
Description:	xix, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnology -- Philosophy Imitation -- Cross-cultural studies. Difference (Philosophy) -- Cross-cultural studies. Mimesis in art Difference (Philosophy) Ethnology -- Philosophy. Imitation. Mimesis in art. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1385370

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ISBN:	0415906865 (hb) : $49.95 (Can. $62.50) 0415906873 (pb) : $15.95 (Can. $19.95)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-290) and index.

Table of Contents:

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.

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