ISBN:
9780990505051
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0990505057
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxiv, 362 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Uniform Title:
Percorso e la voce
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Culture Semiotic models
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Picture-writing
;
Collective memory
;
Oral tradition
;
Mnemonics
;
Collective memory
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Culture
;
Mnemonics
;
Semiotic models
;
Mnemonics
;
Oral tradition
;
Picture-writing
Abstract:
Using philosophical and ethnographic theory, presents new approaches to ritual and memory, relating them to visual and sound images as acts of communication
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionWarburg 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 -- Conclusion.
Note:
Translated from the French title: Le principe de la chimère
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index
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Originally published in Italian under title Percorso e la voce
URL:
http://haubooks.org/the-chimera-principle/
URL:
http://haubooks.org/the-chimera-principle/
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