Format:
viii, 214 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781789207378
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9781789207385
Series Statement:
Studies in social analysis Volume 11
Content:
Introduction: Mimetic governmentality, colonialism, and the state / Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque -- Dances with heads : parasitic mimesis and the government of savagery in colonial East Timor / Ricardo Roque -- Variants of frontier mimesis : colonial encounter and intercultural interaction in the Lao-Vietnamese uplands / Oliver Tappe -- The hut-hospital as project and as practice : mimeses, alterities, and colonial hierarchies / Cristiana Bastos -- Imitations of Buddhist statecraft : the patronage of Lao Buddhism and the reconstruction of relic shrines and temples in colonial French Indochina / Patrice Ladwig -- Colonial mimesis and animal breeding : Karakul sheep in southwestern Angola / Tiago Saraiva -- The colonial state and carnival : the complexity and ambiguity of carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa / Christoph Kohl -- Conclusion: Notes on the conceptual history of mimesis / Patrice Ladwig
Content:
"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"--
Note:
"Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis, volume 62, issue 2."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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2005
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-1-78920-739-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Kolonialismus
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Staat
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Nachahmung
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Entwicklungsländer
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Europa
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Regierung
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Kolonialismus
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Ethnohistorie
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Geschichte 1800-2000
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Aufsatzsammlung
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