ISBN:
9780857459350
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (211 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies in Rhetoric and Culture
Series Statement:
Studies in Rhetoric and Culture Ser v.5
Parallel Title:
Print version Astonishment and Evocation : The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology
DDC:
306.4/7
Keywords:
Art and anthropology
;
Art and society
;
Visual anthropology
;
Visual perception
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler's view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; Part I - Image; Chapter 1 - Do Pictures Stare? Thoughts about Six Elements of Attention; Chapter 2 - Gazing at Paintings and the Evocation of Life; Chapter 3 - Tangled Up in Blue: Symbolism and Evocation; Chapter 4 - Co-Presence, Astonishment, and Evocation in Cinematography; Part II - Performance; Chapter 5 - Captivated by Ritual: Visceral Visitations and the Evocation of Community; Chapter 6 - The Spell of Riddles Among the Witoto; Chapter 7 - Sounds of the Past: Music, History, and Astonishment
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8 - Tears, Not So Idle Tears: ""Time Binding,"" Lachrymose Emotionality, and Ethnographic DisambiguationChapter 9 - Stones, Drumbeats, and Footprints in the Writing of the Other; Chapter 10 - The Translation of the Said and the Unsaid in Sikkanese Ritual Texts; Chapter 11 - Ethnographic Evocations and Evocative Ethnographies; Chapter 12 - Reading Public Culture: Reason and Excess in the Newspaper; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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