Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses
Taussig's deeply informed anthropological readings present us with a contemporary cabinet of curiosities that informs the longstanding fascination with the primitive in the constitution of the modern, and shocks us, in the spirit of Benjamin, into reconsidering what we thought we had largely dismissed in our concerns with the politics of representation. -- George E. Marcus, Rice UniversityInMimesis and AlterityTaussig investigates the contacts between anthropologists and subjects and the world created therein . . . his accounts have the tactility one gets from a good storyteller. --ArtforumThis book can most profitably be read in conjunction with Taussig's provocatice and often original earlier works (e.g.The Devil and Commodity Fetishism) since these provide the details  of the historical and cultural stage of mimetic performance. --Bulletin of Society for theAnthropology of Europe