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Capturing imagination : a proposal for an anthropology of thought / edited by Catherine V. Howard ; translated by Catherine V. Howard [and four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Severi, Carlo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Hau Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human.For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us.In situations like ritual or play, objects acquire a range of human characteristics, such as perception, thought, action, or speech.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-912808-50-1
- OCLC:
- 1182868204
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