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mimesis

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Her family in whom she delighted always and we, her friends and acquaintances, will sorely miss her, though the memories of her will always be with us to urge us toward mimesis of her noble qualities.
Elaborating on the maxim that social identity is a relational symbolic practice and epiphenomenon of fundamental boundary processes defining differences, Harrison argues the contrary: competition, division and violence emerge in conditions of commonality and identification when, and this is crucial, such ongoing resemblance and mimesis are ideologically disguised and denied.
The history of critical thinking about mimesis has oscillated between the poles of fundamental human ambivalence about imitation," writes Walter E.
 
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