Astonishment and Evocation

The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85745-935-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. The book is divided into three parts covering the evocative power of visual art, the immersion in ritual and performance, and the reading, writing, and interpretation of texts. Taken as a whole, the contributions to the book demonstrate how astonishment and evocation deserve an important place in the conceptual repertoire of the human sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strecker, Ivo

Verne, Markus

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnopsychologie, Kulturpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Ivo Strecker & Markus Verne

PRT I: IMAGE

Chapter 1. Do pictures stare? Thoughts about attention

Todd Oakley

Chapter 2. Gazing at paintings and the evocation of life

Philippe-Joseph Salazar

Chapter 3. Tangled up in blue. Symbolism and evocation

Boris Wiseman

Chapter 4. Co-presence, astonishment and evocation in cinematography

Ivo Strecker

PART II: PERFORMANCE

Chapter 5. Captivated by ritual. Visceral visitations and the evocation of community

Klaus-Peter Köpping

Chapter 6. The spell of riddles among the Witoto

Jürg Gasché

Chapter 7. Sounds of the Past. Music, history and astonishment

Markus Verne

Chapter 8. Tears, not so idle tears. Reflections on our entangled emotions and their disambiguation

James Fernandez

PART III: TEXT

Chapter 9. Stones, drumbeats, footprints and mysteries in the writing of the Other

Dennis Tedlock

Chapter 10. The translation of the said the unsaid in Sikkanese ritual texts

Douglas Lewis

Chapter 11. Ethnographic evocations and evocative ethnographies

Barbara Tedlock

Chapter 12. Reading public culture: Reason and excess in the newspaper

Robert Hariman

Über Autor(innen)

Verne, Markus
Markus Verne is Assistant Professor of anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. From 2010 to 2012, he was Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California Los Angeles, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth. For his book on consumption and scarcity in a Sahelian village (Der Mangel an Mitteln, 2007) he received the “Research Sponsorship Award” of the Frobenius Society and the “Junior Scientists Award” of the Association of African Studies in Germany.

Strecker, Ivo
Ivo Strecker is Emeritus Professor of cultural anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He did and still does research with the Hamar in southern Ethiopia and has published widely about them. His film Father of the Goats (1984) received the “Prix Nanook” at the Bilan in Paris, and his theoretical study The Social Practice of Symbolization (1988) was selected by Choice as one of the “outstanding academic books of the year.” Together with Stephen Tyler and Robert Hariman he is editor of the Berghahn Books series Studies in Rhetoric and Culture.

Ivo Strecker is Emeritus Professor of cultural anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He did and still does research with the Hamar in southern Ethiopia and has published widely about them. His film Father of the Goats (1984) received the “Prix Nanook” at the Bilan in Paris, and his theoretical study The Social Practice of Symbolization (1988) was selected by Choice as one of the “outstanding academic books of the year.” Together with Stephen Tyler and Robert Hariman he is editor of the Berghahn Books series Studies in Rhetoric and Culture.