ABSTRACT
Mastery is no longer possible. The West as mirrored in the eyes and handiwork of its others undermines the stability which mastery needs. This chapter explains the mimetic vertigo through examples, and emphasizes the intention to bring out the ways that the mimetic and alteric effect of the reflections that must problematize the very act of making sense of reflection—which is why it fascinates and emits social power, and why it strips the anthropologist naked, so to speak, shorn of the meta-languages of analytic defence, clawing for the firm turf of cultural familiarity. Among the many ways by which the game is copied, and transformed, there is one in particular that drives the film to its spectacularly successful revelation of the mimetic faculty. This is in the dancing by the players intermittently throughout the game, when the team is in trouble, when a team member makes a great catch, and when the team enters the playing field.
