1. See Mauss, supra note 19.
2. According to Viveiros de Castro, this cosmology was shared by Amerindian societies from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego; and puts upside down the Western distinction between subject and object, soul-body, form-substance, or culture-nature. See Eduardo Viveiros De Castro, La Mirada Del Jaguar 270 (L. Tennina trans., 2013).
3. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Race and History, in 2 Structural Anthropology 329 (M. Layton trans. 1978); Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques 76 (J. Weightman & D. Weightman trans., 1992).
4. In a similar vein, Taussig has noted that mimesis has a complex relation with alterity: The former can close the doors to the latter—like in law's case—or can be a passage to other forms of being—like in shamanism. After all, mimesis is always a mean to relate to otherness. In Taussig's terms, we can think in “mimesis as an art of becoming something else, of becoming other.” See Taussig supra note 16, at 36.