Carlo Severi, Janet Lloyd, David Graeber

Broschiertes Buch

The Chimera Principle - An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination

Beschreibung

Presents a fresh theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among nonliterate peoples. The author unfolds fresh approaches to research in the anthropology of ritual and memory, ultimately building a new theory of imagination and an original anthropology of thought.

Autor

Carlo Severi is professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Janet Lloyd has translated more than seventy books from French, including Philippe Descola's Beyond Nature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HAU
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780990505051
• ISBN-10: 0990505057
• Artikelnr.: 41671447