States of Imitation : : Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule / / ed. by Ricardo Roque, Patrice Ladwig.
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, State...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Social Analysis ;
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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