![]() ![]() Review of L’objet-personne in L’Homme: Revue française d’anthropologie 227–28 (3) (2018): 279–81. Additional rights clearance may be necessary for third-party content within.įrançoise Armengaud. The open-access PDF of this book, attached above, is made available by H au Books through a Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND 4.0 International (Attribution Required / Non-Commercial Use / No Derivatives). ![]() Perspective and the Anthropology of Images Wayana and Yekuana Iconography: Chimeras in the AmazonĬhapter 9: The Semblance of Life: The Epistemology of Western PerspectiveĪ Science of Description: Imitare and Ritrarre The Visible and Invisible in Works of Art Principles of Analysis: An Example from KandinskyĬhapter 8: Chimeric Space: Perception and Projection ![]() Reflections on Funeral Rituals among the Wari’Ĭhapter 7: The Anthropology of Abstract ArtĬlaude Lévi-Strauss and the Anthropology of Art The Image Through the Text: Identification, Hierarchy, and Prefiguration Kolossoi and Kouroi or The Pragmatics of ImagesĬhapter 6: Becoming Patroclus: Funerary Rituals and Games in The Iliad Here-Now-I: Demonstrative Images and Speech Acts Primitivism without Borrowing: Imaginary FiliationĬhapter 3: The Universe of the Arts of MemoryĮponymous Animals: Northwest Coast Visual CultureĬhapter 4: Authorless Authority: Forms of Authority in Oral TraditionsĬhapter 5: Giving Voice: When Images Speak Susanne Kuechler, author of Malanggan: Art, Memory and Sacrifice Read excerpts from book reviews of Capturing Imaginationīuy this book from The University of Chicago PressĬhapter 1: On Living Objects and the Anthropology of ThoughtĬhapter 2: Primitivist Empathy: Intensifying the Image and Deciphering Space This book indeed is a joy to read and a gift for anyone interested in the fundamental paradox of being human.” A tour de force on the topic of person and object and its manifold offshoots, the book is a must-read for anyone acquainted with earlier classics and their unanswered questions, which are exposed and debated here in the most nuanced, sophisticated, and hugely accessible and readable manner. With this excellent English translation of L’Objet-personne, Carlo Severi invites us to revisit the legacy of assumptions and resulting models that have influenced how we conduct ourselves around objects, how we approach them in research and analysis, and how we account for the difference they make to culture and society. “The relation between person and object is a topic that has been central to theory in anthropology and to the method of ethnography since its inception. Carlos Fausto, author of Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia This nuanced inquiry into the works of memory and shared imagination is a proposal for a new anthropology of thought. How might we describe the kind of thought that gives life to the artifact, making it memorable as well as effective, in daily life, play, or ritual action? Following The Chimera Principle, in this collection of essays Carlo Severi explores the kind of shared imagination where inanimate artifacts, from non-Western masks and ritual statuettes to paintings and sculptures in our own tradition, can be perceived as living beings. Puppets, dolls, and ritual statuettes cease to be merely addressees and begin to address us-we see life in them. In situations like ritual or play, objects acquire a range of human characteristics, such as perception, thought, action, or speech. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us. We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. Howard, Matthew Carey, Eric Bye, Ramon Fonkoue, and Joyce Suechun Cheng A Proposal for an Anthropology of Thought
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