The chimera principle : an anthropology of memory and imagination / Carlo Severi ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by David Graeber.
| Author/creator | Severi, Carlo author. |
| Other author | Lloyd, Janet, 1934- translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chicago : Hau Books, [2015] |
| Copyright Date | ©2015 |
| Description | xxxiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Percorso e la voce. English |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | Using philosophical and ethnographic theory, presents new approaches to ritual and memory, relating them to visual and sound images as acts of communication. |
| General note | Translated from the French title: Le principe de la chimère. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index. |
| Original version | Originally published in Italian, under title: Percorso e la voce. |
| ISBN | 9780990505051 |
| ISBN | 0990505057 |