Astonishment and Evocation : : The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology /

Astonishment and Evocation : : The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology / / ed. by Ivo Strecker, Markus Verne.

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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 broade...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Fernandez, James W.,
Gasché, Jürg,
Hariman, Robert,
Köpping, Klaus-Peter,
Lewis, E. Douglas,
Oakley, Todd,
Salazar, Philippe-Joseph,
Strecker, Ivo,
Tedlock, Barbara,
Tedlock, Dennis,
Verne, Markus,
Wiseman, Boris,
HerausgeberIn:
Strecker, Ivo,
Verne, Markus,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (212 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part I Image
  • CHAPTER 1 Do Pictures Stare? Thoughts about Six Elements of Attention
  • CHAPTER 2 Gazing at Paintings and the Evocation of Life
  • CHAPTER 3 Tangled Up in Blue: Symbolism and Evocation
  • CHAPTER 4 Co-Presence, Astonishment, and Evocation in Cinematography
  • Part II Performance
  • CHAPTER 5 Captivated by Ritual: Visceral Visitations and the Evocation of Community
  • CHAPTER 6 The Spell of Riddles Among the Witoto
  • CHAPTER 7 Sounds of the Past: Music, History, and Astonishment
  • CHAPTER 8 Tears, Not So Idle Tears. “Time Binding,” Lachrymose Emotionality, and Ethnographic Disambiguation
  • Part III Text
  • CHAPTER 9 Stones, Drumbeats, and Footprints in the Writing of the Other
  • CHAPTER 10 The Translation of the Said and the Unsaid in Sikkanese Ritual Texts
  • CHAPTER 11 Ethnographic Evocations and Evocative Ethnographies
  • CHAPTER 12 Reading Public Culture: Reason and Excess in the Newspaper
  • Contributors
  • Index

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