States of imitation : mimetic governmentality and colonial rule /

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"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,...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ladwig, Patrice (Editor), Roque, Ricardo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
Series:Studies in social analysis ; volume 11
Subjects:
Colonies > Administration > History.
Indigenous peoples > Government relations.
Indigenous peoples > Politics and government.
Political science > Anthropological aspects.
Cultural appropriation.
Imitation > Political aspects.
Colonies > Administration > Histoire.
Autochtones > Relations avec l'État.
Autochtones > Politique et gouvernement.
Appropriation culturelle.
Imitation (Psychologie) > Aspect politique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Colonial influence
Colonies > Administration
Colonization
Cultural appropriation
Indigenous peoples > Government relations
Indigenous peoples > Politics and government
Political science > Anthropological aspects
Asia > Colonization.
Asia > Colonial influence.
Africa > Colonization.
Africa > Colonial influence.
Asie > Colonisation.
Asie > Influence coloniale.
Afrique > Influence coloniale.
Africa
Asia
academic.
africa.
asia.
colonial history.
colonial state.
colonialism.
control.
diplomacy.
engaging.
government.
historical ethnographic studies.
historical.
history.
indigenous forms of rule.
indigenous polities.
indigenous subjects.
late western colonialism.
mimetic governmentality.
political science.
political.
politics.
post colonialism.
power.
reciprocal ties.
social analysis.
social issues.
social science.
social studies.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mimetic governmentality, colonialism, and the state / Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque
  • Dances with heads : parasitic mimesis and the government of savagery in colonial East Timor / Ricardo Roque
  • Variants of frontier mimesis : colonial encounter and intercultural interaction in the Lao-Vietnamese uplands / Oliver Tappe
  • The hut-hospital as project and as practice : mimeses, alterities, and colonial hierarchies / Cristiana Bastos
  • Imitations of Buddhist statecraft : the patronage of Lao Buddhism and the reconstruction of relic shrines and temples in colonial French Indochina / Patrice Ladwig
  • Colonial mimesis and animal breeding : Karakul sheep in southwestern Angola / Tiago Saraiva
  • The colonial state and carnival : the complexity and ambiguity of carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa / Christoph Kohl
  • Mimetic primitivism : notes on the conceptual history of mimesis / Patrice Ladwig
  • The risks and failures of imitation / Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque.

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