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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
- 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