TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eckstein, Lars
T1  - Maps drawn on the sand: of mimicry and depropriation on Ludwig Leichhardt's second Australian expedition
JF  - Journal of Australian studies
N2  - In this essay, I explore various politics of mimicry on Ludwig Leichhardt's second Australian expedition. Following Michael Taussig, I read mimicry as embedded in a complex economy of gift exchange which disrupts the binary categories of self and other, subject and object, man and nature. Mimetic exchanges, in other words, bear the potential for a non-dualistic dynamics of depropriation, a dynamics which may be avowed or disavowed by various actors in the colonial encounter. Focussing on three actors in particularLudwig Leichhardt himself, his British botanist Daniel Bunce, and the intriguing figure of Mr Turner, an Indigenous AustralianI trace the ways in which mimicry-as-depropriation is dealt with across the colonial archive.
KW  - Ludwig Leichhardt
KW  - mimicry
KW  - depropriation
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2015.1076024
SN  - 1444-3058
SN  - 1835-6419
VL  - 39
IS  - 4
SP  - 512
EP  - 528
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -