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Capturing imagination : a proposal for an anthropology of thought

Title
Capturing imagination : a proposal for an anthropology of thought / by Carlo Severi ; translated by Catherine V. Howard, Matthew Carey, Eric Bye, Ramon Fonkoue, and Joyce Suechun Chung.
Author
Severi, Carlo
Publication
  • Chicago, IL : Hau Books, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xxiii, 360 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Objet-personne. English
Alternative Title
Objet-personne.
Subject
  • Visual anthropology
  • Ceremonial objects
  • Signs and symbols
  • Visual perception
  • Cognition and culture
Note
  • Revised and expanded translation of: L'objet-personne : une anthropologie de la croyance visuelle. ©2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-360).
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.
ISBN
  • 0999157000
  • 9780999157008
LCCN
40028695251
OCLC
  • on1024237987
  • 1024237987
  • SCSB-9230923
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries