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The chimera principle : an anthropology of memory and imagination / Carlo Severi ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by David Graeber.

Author/creator Severi, Carlo author.
Other author/creatorLloyd, Janet, 1934- translator.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chicago : Hau Books, [2015]
Copyright Notice ©2015
Descriptionxxxiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titlePercorso e la voce. English
Contents Warburg the anthropologist, or the decoding of a utopia : from the biology of images to the anthropology of memory -- An Amerindian mnemonic form : pictography and parallelism -- Memory, projection, belief : or, the metamorphoses of the locutor -- Christ in America : or, an atagonistic memory.
Abstract Using philosophical and ethnographic theory, presents new approaches to ritual and memory, relating them to visual and sound images as acts of communication.
General noteTranslated from the French title: Le principe de la chimère.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index.
Original versionOriginally published in Italian, under title: Percorso e la voce.
ISBN9780990505051
ISBN0990505057

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Joyner General Stacks GN357 .S4813 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold