Carlos Fausto

Art Effects

Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia
Übersetzer: Rodgers, David

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Produktbeschreibung

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.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9781496220448
• ISBN-10: 1496220447
• Artikelnr.: 58019503

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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