Gebundenes Buch

Astonishment and Evocation

The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology

Herausgeber: Strecker, Ivo; Verne, Markus

Beschreibung

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 works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. Covers the evocative power of visual art, the immersion in ritual and performance, and the reading, writing, and interpretation of texts. The contributions to the book demonstrate how astonishment and evocation deserve an important place in the conceptual repertoire of the human sciences.

Autor

Ivo Strecker is Emeritus Professor of cultural anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He did and still does research with the Hamar in southern Ethiopia and has published widely about them. His film Father of the Goats (1984) received the "Prix Nanook" at the Bilan in Paris, and his theoretical study The Social Practice of Symbolization (1988) was selected by Choice as one of the "outstanding academic books of the year." Together with Stephen Tyler and Robert Hariman he is editor of the Berghahn Books series Studies in Rhetoric and Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780857459350
• ISBN-10: 085745935X
• Artikelnr.: 38489211