States of Imitation : : Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule / / ed. by Ricardo Roque, Patrice Ladwig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bastos, Cristiana,; Kohl, Christoph,; Ladwig, Patrice,; Roque, Ricardo,; Saraiva, Tiago,; Tappe, Oliver,
• HerausgeberIn: Ladwig, Patrice,; Roque, Ricardo,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Social Analysis ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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