| Michael T. Taussig - 1993 - 324 pages
...nature, the faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore difference, yield into and become Other. The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on...knowing as it is to the construction and subsequent naturalizationof identities. But if it is a faculty, it is also a history, and just as histories enter... | |
| Bell Yung, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski - 1996 - 338 pages
...higher state of existence, he is as reluctant as the wrongfully dying to depart the mortal world. 16. "The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on...In an older language, this is 'sympathetic magic' " (Taussig 1993 :xui). 17. "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please;... | |
| Judy Rosenthal - 1998 - 296 pages
...nature, the faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore difference, yield into and become Other. The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on...representation may even assume that character and that power” (1993: xiii). Mimesis makes us unable to say where nature ends and culture begins (on vice versa) or... | |
| Vilsoni Hereniko, Rob Wilson - 1999 - 454 pages
...of sentences, whose mode of signification or making significance is thereby enhanced. For Taussig, "The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on...In an older language, this is 'sympathetic magic.' " 49 During the composition of Moby-Dick, Melville wrote of "ontological heroics" (Correspondence,... | |
| Joanne P. Sharp - 2000 - 324 pages
...also describes a dialectical articsslation.' 5 Taussig (1993: xiii) discusses nsimevis in teross of ‘the copy drawing on the character and power of the original, to the point where the representation may even assume that charactee and power.' 6 In the 1996 national elections,... | |
| Joanne P. Sharp - 2000 - 328 pages
...it also describes a dialectical articulation.' 5 Taussig (1993: xiii) discusses mimnsis in terms of ‘the copy drawing on the character and power of the original, to the point where the representation may even assume that character and power.' 6 In the 1996 national elections,... | |
| Barbara Creed, Jeanette Hoorn - 2001 - 342 pages
...of sentences, whose mode of signification or making significance is thereby enhanced. For Taussig, ‘The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy, drawing...older language, this is “sympathetic magic”?” During the composition of Moby-Dick, Melville wrote of'ontological heroics',” which might here be... | |
| Joan Gross - 2001 - 378 pages
...Replication constitutes a specific instance of the general process of mimesis where the copy draws "on the character and power of the original, to the...representation may even assume that character and that power" (Taussig 1993: xiii). I have chosen to look at the Verrees-Dufour-(Deville)-Ficarrotta performer lineage... | |
| Barbara Creed, Jeanette Hoorn - 2001 - 332 pages
...of signification or making significance is thereby enhanced. For Taussig. ‘The wonder of mmmesis lies in the copy, drawing on the character and power of the original, no the point whereby the representation may even assume that character and that power. In an older... | |
| Stephen Ellingson, Martha Christian Green - 2002 - 276 pages
...Scene. Michael Taussig flags the importance of mimesis in configuring identity when he remarks that “in an older language, this is ‘sympathetic magic,'...construction and subsequent naturalization of identities.” 7 Gender and the Ballroom Scene On the premise that the Ballroom is an arena in which people play with... | |
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