Capturing imagination : a proposal for an anthropology of thought

Capturing imagination : a proposal for an anthropology of thought /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Severi, Carlo (Author)
Other Authors: Howard, Catherine V. (Translator), Carey, Matthew (Translator), Bye, Eric (Translator), Fonkoue, Ramon (Translator), Cheng, Joyce Suechun (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Chicago : Hau Books, [2018]
Subjects:
Visual anthropology
Ceremonial objects
Signs and symbols
Visual perception
Cognition and culture
Sozialanthropologie
Kunstethnologie
Ethnopsychologie
Ethnolinguistik
Visuelle Ethnologie
Theoriendynamik
Objektbeziehung
Anthropomorphismus
Agency-Theorie
Wissensproduktion
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Sakralisierung
Kultgegenstand
Table of Contents:
  • On living objects and the anthropology of thought
  • Primitivist empathy : intensifying the image and deciphering space
  • The universe of the arts of memory
  • Authorless authority : forms of authority in oral traditions
  • Giving voice : when images speak
  • Becoming Patroclus : funerary rituals and games in the Iliad
  • The anthropology of abstract art
  • Chimeric space : perception and projection
  • The semblance of life : the epistemology of Western perspective
  • On irrefutable hypotheses.

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