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The Resource The chimera principle : an anthropology of memory and imagination, Carlo Severi ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by David Graeber

The chimera principle : an anthropology of memory and imagination, Carlo Severi ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by David Graeber

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The chimera principle : an anthropology of memory and imagination
Title
The chimera principle
Title remainder
an anthropology of memory and imagination
Statement of responsibility
Carlo Severi ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by David Graeber
Creator
Contributor
Translator
Subject
Language
  • eng
  • ita
  • eng
Summary
Using philosophical and ethnographic theory, presents new approaches to ritual and memory, relating them to visual and sound images as acts of communication
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Severi, Carlo
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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1934-
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  • Lloyd, Janet
  • Graeber, David
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  • Culture
  • Picture-writing
  • Collective memory
  • Oral tradition
  • Mnemonics
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Label
The chimera principle : an anthropology of memory and imagination, Carlo Severi ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by David Graeber
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Publication
Copyright
Note
Translated from the French title: Le principe de la chimère
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Warburg the anthropologist, or the decoding of a utopia : from the biology of images to the anthropology of memory -- An Amerindian mnemonic form : pictography and parallelism -- Memory, projection, belief : or, the metamorphoses of the locutor -- Christ in America : or, an atagonistic memory -- Conclusion
Control code
ocn891618295
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xxxiv, 362 pages
Isbn
9780990505051
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)891618295
Label
The chimera principle : an anthropology of memory and imagination, Carlo Severi ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by David Graeber
Publication
Copyright
Note
Translated from the French title: Le principe de la chimère
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Warburg the anthropologist, or the decoding of a utopia : from the biology of images to the anthropology of memory -- An Amerindian mnemonic form : pictography and parallelism -- Memory, projection, belief : or, the metamorphoses of the locutor -- Christ in America : or, an atagonistic memory -- Conclusion
Control code
ocn891618295
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xxxiv, 362 pages
Isbn
9780990505051
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)891618295

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