The Pygmy Mimic

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ID2103164
AutoresStan Frankland (0000-0003-1943-5218, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume86
Fascículo3
Páginas552-570
Data de publicação2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0001972016000371
OpenAlexW2281965502
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas24

The Pygmy mimic is an extremely persistent colonial trope that continues to inform contemporary anthropological understandings of Africa's Pygmy populations. Mimicry is now understood as being a key component of the social reproduction of a distinct Pygmy way of being. In this paper I examine the historical accounts of mimicry and try to bring a historical perspective to bear on contemporary ethnographic accounts of its practice. I also set my own research among the Sua Pygmies of Uganda against these other examples. The intention behind this is to acknowledge the common humanity of Africa's Pygmies and to create new grounds of comparison - such as a shared history of oppression - that are not dependent on a unique foraging mode of thought

Biology · Colonialism · Ethnography · Ethnology · Humanity · Linguistics · Mimicry · Oppression · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Trope (literature · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology