Chapter 7 Mimetic Primitivism: Notes on the Conceptual History of Mimesis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction. Mimetic Governmentality, Colonialism, and the State 1
6. Chapter 1 Dances with Heads: Parasitic Mimesis and the Government of Savagery in Colonial East Timor 28
7. Chapter 2 Variants of Frontier Mimesis: Colonial Encounter and Intercultural Interaction in the Lao-Vietnamese Uplands 51
8. Chapter 3 The Hut-Hospital as Project and as Practice: Mimeses, Alterities, and Colonial Hierarchies 76
9. Chapter 4 Imitations of Buddhist Statecraft: The Patronage of Lao Buddhism and the Reconstruction of Relic Shrines and Temples in Colonial French Indochina 98
10. Chapter 5 Colonial Mimesis and Animal Breeding: Karakul Sheep in Southwestern Angola 126
11. Chapter 6 The Colonial State and Carnival: The Complexity and Ambiguity of Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa 145
12. Chapter 7 Mimetic Primitivism: Notes on the Conceptual History of Mimesis 169
13. Postscript. The Risks and Failures of Imitation 200
14. Index 206