Art Effects: Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia - Brossura

Fausto, Carlos

 
9781496238740: Art Effects: Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia
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ISBN 10: 1496238745 ISBN 13: 9781496238740
Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2024

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In Art Effects Carlos Fausto explores the interplay between Indigenous material culture and ontology in ritual contexts, interpreting the agency of artifacts and Indigenous presences and addressing major themes in anthropological theory and art history to study ritual images in the widest sense. Fausto delves into analyses of the body, aerophones, ritual masks, and anthropomorphic effigies while making a broad comparison between Native visual regimes and the Christian imagistic tradition.

Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in Amazonia, Fausto offers a rich tapestry of inductive theorizing in understanding anthropology’s most complex subjects of analysis, such as praxis and materiality, ontology and belief, the power of images and mimesis, anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, and animism and posthumanism. Art Effects also brims with suggestive, hemispheric comparisons of South American and North American Indigenous masks. In this tantalizing interdisciplinary work with echoes of Franz Boas, Pierre Clastres, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, among others, Fausto asks: how do objects and ritual images acquire their efficacy and affect human beings?
 

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Informazioni sull?autore

Carlos Fausto is a professor of anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a Global Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia and coeditor, with Michael Heckenberger, of Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological Perspectives. David Rodgers has been based in Brazil for twenty years, working as a translator of academic texts, including numerous books in anthropology.

 

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Editore
Univ of Nebraska Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1496238745
ISBN 13 
9781496238740
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
426
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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ISBN 10:  1496220447 ISBN 13:  9781496220448
Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2020
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