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Art Effects
Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia
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Erstverkaufstag: 01.06.2024
Artikel-Nr:
9781496238740
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.06.2024
Seiten:
426
Autor:
Carlos Fausto
Format:
229x152x0 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
In Art Effects Brazilian anthropologist Carlos Fausto explores the agency of Indigenous artifacts and images in order to offer a new understanding of the pragmatics and ontology of ritual contexts.
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Orthographic Conventions Introduction: The Smirk 1. Body-Artifact 2. Wild Mysteries 3. Whirlwinds of Images 4. The Pronominal Effigy 5. A Chief’s Two Bodies Conclusion: Masters of Deceit Source Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index