 | William Egginton - 2003 - 220 pages
...it directly or appropriating in some way qualities associated with it. The power of the copy to draw “on the character and power of the original, to...may even assume that character and that power,” is a notion of mimesis that Michael Taussig has cultivated in his Mimesis andAlterity, as an alternative... | |
 | Raminder Kaur, Ajay J Sinha - 2005 - 348 pages
...at the heart of the social meaning of bandiri music. Taussig (1993: xiii) argues that ‘the power of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on the character...representation may even assume that character and power'. What is occurring here is a siphoning of charisma, as Sufis are harnessing the glamour and... | |
 | Renée Heberle - 2006 - 382 pages
...and is to be understood, in its more "shamanistic" uses, as a form of "sympathetic magic" in which "the wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on...representation may even assume that character and that power." 6 Taussig probes the history of mimesis and the "mimesis of history," the telling of the story of possibility... | |
 | D. Soyini Madison, Judith Hamera - 2006 - 592 pages
...ethnographer, the fiction writer, the adapter, and the stage director. Michael Taussig has asserted that "the wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on...representation may even assume that character and power" (1993, p. xiii). Thus the process of mimetically "making over" becomes an act of full-fledged... | |
 | Rane Willerslev - 2007 - 247 pages
...a particularly powerful way of understanding, representing, and controlling the surrounding world: "The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on the character and the power of the original, to the point whereby the representation may even assume that character and... | |
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The wonder of mimesis lies in the copy drawing on the character and power of the original, to the point whereby the representation may even assume that character and that power. In an older language, this is 'sympathetic magic' and I believe it is as... 
