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  • Capturing Imagination

    A Proposal for an Anthropology of Thought

    by Carlo Severi ...
    We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us. In situations like ritual or play, objects acquire a range of human characteristics, such as perception, thought, action, or speech. Puppets, dolls, and ritual statuettes cease to be merely addressees and begin to address us ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Chimera Principle

    An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination

    by Carlo Severi ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi’s The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples. Setting himself against a tradition that has long seen the memory of people “without writing”—which relies on such ephemeral records as ornaments, body painting, and masks—as ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Translating Worlds

    The Epistemological Space of Translation

    Edited by Carlo Severi, William F. Hanks ...
    Series series Special Issues in Ethnographic Theory
    Set against the backdrop of anthropology’s recent focus on various “turns” (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation as a theoretical and ethnographic guide for twenty-first century anthropology, gathering together contributions from leading thinkers in the field.Since Ferdinand de Saussure and Franz Boas ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD