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
PublicationChicago : Hau Books, [2015]
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxxxiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Uniform titlePercorso 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 noteTranslated from the French title: Le principe de la chimère.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 335-356) and index.
Original versionOriginally published in Italian, under title: Percorso e la voce.
ISBN9780990505051
ISBN0990505057