States of imitation : mimetic governmentality and colonial rule /: mimetic governmentality and colonial rule. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Patrice Ladwig, Ricardo Roque.
• Editors: Ladwig, Patrice; Roque, Ricardo
• Contents: <a href="/downloads/intros/LadwigStates_intro.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction: Mimetic Governmentality, Colonialism, and the State ; Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque Chapter 1. Dances with Heads: Parasitic Mimesis and the Government of Savagery in Colonial East Timor; Ricardo Roque Chapter 2. Variants of Frontier Mimesis: Colonial Encounter and Intercultural Interaction in the Lao Vietnamese Uplands; Oliver Tappe Chapter 3. The Hut-Hospital as Project and as Practice: Mimeses, Alterities, and Colonial Hierarchies; Cristiana Bastos Chapter 4. Imitations of Buddhist Statecraft: The Patronage of Lao Buddhism and the Reconstruction of Relic Shrines and Temples in Colonial French Indochina; Patrice Ladwig Chapter 5. Colonial Mimesis and Animal Breeding: Karakul Sheep in Southwestern Angola; Tiago Saraiva Chapter 6. The Colonial State and Carnival: The Complexity and Ambiguity of Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa; Christoph Kohl Chapter 7. Mimetic Primitivism: Notes on the Conceptual History of Mimesis; Patrice Ladwig Postscript: The Risks and Failures of Imitation; Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 325.3; Imperialism; Colonies -- Administration; Imperialism -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789207392
• Related ISBNs: 9781789207378; 9781789207385
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