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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].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Severi, Carlo, author.
Contributor:
Howard, Catherine V., translator.
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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