States of Imitation

Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule

AvPatrice Ladwig,Ricardo Roque

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:332 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Social Analysis
Antal sidor:150
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781789207385

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Patrice Ladwig is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge.

Recensioner i media

“This delightful collection of studies from Lusophone and Francophone colonies finally advances us beyond the critique of colonial representations, to an ethnography of the ambiguities and risks of a reciprocal colonial presence.” • Peter Pels, Leiden University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Mimetic Governmentality, Colonialism, and the StatePatrice Ladwig and Ricardo RoqueChapter 1. Dances with Heads: Parasitic Mimesis and the Government of Savagery in Colonial East TimorRicardo RoqueChapter 2. Variants of Frontier Mimesis: Colonial Encounter and Intercultural Interaction in the Lao Vietnamese UplandsOliver TappeChapter 3. The Hut-Hospital as Project and as Practice: Mimeses, Alterities, and Colonial HierarchiesCristiana BastosChapter 4. Imitations of Buddhist Statecraft: The Patronage of Lao Buddhism and the Reconstruction of Relic Shrines and Temples in Colonial French IndochinaPatrice LadwigChapter 5. Colonial Mimesis and Animal Breeding: Karakul Sheep in Southwestern AngolaTiago SaraivaChapter 6. The Colonial State and Carnival: The Complexity and Ambiguity of Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West AfricaChristoph KohlChapter 7. Mimetic Primitivism: Notes on the Conceptual History of MimesisPatrice LadwigPostscript: The Risks and Failures of ImitationPatrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque