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Titolo: | Astonishment and evocation : the spell of culture in art and anthropology / / edited by Ivo Strecker and Markus Verne |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, c2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.4/7 |
306.47 | |
Soggetto topico: | Art and anthropology |
Art and society | |
Visual anthropology | |
Visual perception | |
Altri autori: | StreckerIvo A. <1940-> VerneMarkus |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. I. Image -- pt. II. Performance -- pt. III. Text. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 wo |
Titolo autorizzato: | Astonishment and evocation |
ISBN: | 0-85745-936-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807348703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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