September 2010:
A special edition of the Dutch anthropological journal ETNOFOOR on the subject of imitation has just been published. This was guest edited by Andrew Whitehouse and Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (who is now at Manchester) and came out of a panel they convened at the 2009 ASA conference in Bristol. Articles cover subjects as diverse as copying as a technique used by artists, scientists building robots, Melanesians ‘pretending’ to do capitalism and early anthropologists learning about indigenous peoples through imitative embodiment. You can view the table of contents at the ETNOFOOR website.