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  • Arte y agencia

    Una teoría antropológica

    par Alfred Gell ...
    Collections series Paradigma Indicial
    ¿Qué subyace al poder seductor del arte? En esta obra Alfred Gell propone una teoría que se aparta radicalmente de las interpretaciones anteriores. Critica que las teorías estéticas adopten una posición demasiado pasiva con respecto de los objetos y, en cambio, hace hincapié en el arte como forma de acción instrumental, concibiendo la elaboración de las cosas como medio de influir en los ... En savoir plus

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  • Art and Agency

    An Anthropological Theory

    par Alfred Gell ...
    Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of objects and not to ... En savoir plus

    $112.79 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Time

    Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images

    par Alfred Gell ...
    Collections series Explorations in Anthropology
    Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is culturally conditioned, how societies deal with temporal problems and whether time can be considered a ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries

    Umeda Society, Language and Ritual Volume 51

    par Alfred Gell ...
    Collections series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    In this substantial book, Gell guides the reader systematically through an analysis of the social structure, language and ritual of the Umedia-Punda connubium of the West Sepik district. One of the central areas explored is the ida fertitility ritual and the decipherment and the unravelling of symbolic relationships between words of similar construction. One one side is the anaylsis on the ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Art of Anthropology

    Essays and Diagrams

    par Alfred Gell ...
    Collections series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological enquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gel's highly original exploration of ... En savoir plus

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  • Arte e agência

    par Alfred Gell ...
    Traduit par Jamille Pinheiro Dias ...
    Collections series Coleção Argonautas
    Com este livro, o antropólogo britânico Alfred Gell tanto inova a leitura tradicional que a antropologia fez da chamada arte primitiva, como questiona a teoria da arte de um modo geral, ao adotar como eixo de seu argumento o conceito de agência. O autor defende que a obra de arte, produzida por indivíduos ou coletivamente, é dotada de intencionalidade, isto é, sua existência influencia os ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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    par Marilyn Strathern ...
    Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    par Philippe Descola ...
    Traduit par Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... En savoir plus

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  • Sensibility and Sense

    The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World

    par Arnold Berleant ...
    Collections Livre 6 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earth ... En savoir plus

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  • Sensual Relations

    Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

    par David Howes ...
    With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Foreign Bodies

    par Alphonso Lingis ...
    Foreign Bodies analyzes how our culture elaborates for us the bodies we have by natural evolution. Calling on the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body, Alphonso Lingis explores forms of power, pleasure and pain, and libidinal identity.The book contrasts the findings of theory with the practice of the body as formulated in quite different kinds of language--the language ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • A Cosmos in Stone

    Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art

    par David J. Lewis-Williams ...
    Collections series Archaeology of Religion
    J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of the 1970s, shows how a growing understanding of San mythology, cosmology, and ethnography helped ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD