Thanks to Catherine for giving a lecture on the Hauka on Tuesday! Your readings from Week 4 should have provided good background for her discussion. Her powerpoint slides are below, followed by some of the readings she mentioned.
Further readings
Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Mask
Bhabha, Homi 1994 Of Mimicry and Men: the ambivalence of colonial discourse. In The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge Pp. 85-92
Ferguson, James 2002 Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the “New world society” Cultural Anthropology 17(4):551-69
Taussig, Michael 1993 Mimesis and Alterity: a particular history of the senses. New York: Routledge
Stoller, Paul 1994 Embodying Colonial Memories. American Anthropologist 96(3): 634-48
Stoller, Paul 1995 Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit possession, power & the Hauka of West Africa. New York: Routledge
Just in case you missed it Jean Rouch’s Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters) is available on youtube in three parts.
