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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

The Magic of Mimesis: A Historically Informed Anthropology of Sympathetic Magic and Contact

Raquel Romberg provides an indepth review of magic and mimesis from an anthropological perspective. Drawing on her own exhaustive research into Afro-Latin rituals and Taussig’s “first and second contact”, Romberg turns her post into a reflexive project: a fourth contact that acts as an embodied retelling with its own ethnographic and spiritual 'power'. MLA citation format: Romberg, Raquel, "The Magic of Mimesis:  A Historically...