Severi veut en arriver Г comprendre lвЂ™humain et Г©tablit les bases pour une science de la mГ©moire et de lвЂ™imagination. вЂњ Severi, Carlo.вЂќ Anthropologie etВ SociГ©tГ©sВ 40, no. 4 (2016):В 960-961.Д¬arlo SeveriвЂ™s The Chimera PrincipleВ is an essential work of anthropological literature for the study of so-called вЂњoralвЂќ societies but also for researchers interested in the transmission of memory, belief, oral tradition, and so onвЂ¦.Дue to his groundbreaking reflections on the old anthropological concepts, The Chimera PrincipleВ has all the values of the monumental anthropological synthetic works worth reading and вЂњthinking with.вЂќД«eaudoin, Christine. вЂњ The Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination, by Carlo Severi.вЂќ American AnthropologistВ 118, no. The Chimera Principle:В An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination is making a contribution to different fields of interest in anthropology: memory, ritual, and images, among others, bringing them together in a coherent argumentвЂ¦ this is not just a collection of essays, on the contrary it is a very coherent volume with a sustained narrative that unfolds chapter by chapter. вЂњ The Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination, by Carlo Severi.вЂќ Anthropological ForumВ 27, no. None of those terms, Severi argues, gets at the mnemonic and ritual functions of such arts, and he sets out on a grand quest, mainly across the Americas (but with forays into Oceania and New Guinea) to create a new вЂњanthropology of memory and imagination,вЂќ as the subtitle of his book has it. The lightning-snakes they drew become the prototype of SeveriвЂ™s chimeras, artistic productions that Western analysts have consistently misinterpreted in terms of the referential function of language-a tack that leads them to categorize such objects as вЂњcrudely realistic,вЂќ вЂњabstract,вЂќ вЂњdecorativeвЂќ or вЂњimaginaryвЂќ (Severi 2015a:33вЂ“34). Warburg visited the Hopi in 1895вЂ“96 and became fascinated by children who, when asked to draw lightning, drew a snake. Severi begins with a meditation on a Zande harp, followed by a discussion of the art historian Aby WarburgвЂ™s expansive efforts to understand so-called primitive art. This is a book in the grand tradition of Claude Levi-StraussвЂ™ Mythologiques. The centrality of comparative interpretation to anthropology is dazzlingly illustrated in SeveriвЂ™s The Chimera Principle. вЂњ Found in Translation.вЂќ Reviews in AnthropologyВ 45, no. In The chimera principle, Carlo Severi has done nothing less than to pioneer an innovative anthropology of memory, opening up areas of inquiry from which everyone throughout the humanities and the social sciences will learn. Remarkable for its scholarly depth, its ability to recast the whole field of memory and imagination through its relation to visual and sound images, and above all its complete mastery over comparative ethnography, this book is a stunning landmark in anthropological theory.

The translation of The Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination is a major event in Anglo-American anthropology. Thomas Cummins, co-author of Beyond the lettered city: Indigenous literacies in the Andes

This English-language edition, beautifully translated by Janet Lloyd and complete with a foreword by David Graeber, will spark widespread debate and be heralded as an instant classic for anthropologists, historians, and philosophers.Д¬arlo SeveriвЂ™s The chimera principle is a forceful study for anyone who wants to move beyond conventional concepts of вЂњtextвЂќ and вЂњimage.вЂќвЂ¦ In this brilliant translation of what is certain to become an instant classic in visual anthropology, we come to understand how sound and image become alive in acts of communication. Setting himself against a tradition that has long seen the memory of people вЂњwithout writingвЂќ-which relies on such ephemeral records as ornaments, body painting, and masks-as fundamentally disordered or doomed to failure, he argues strenuously that ritual actions in these societies pragmatically produce religious meaning and that they demonstrate what he calls a вЂњchimericвЂќ imagination.Дeploying philosophical and ethnographic theory, Severi unfolds new approaches to research in the anthropology of ritual and memory, ultimately building a new theory of imagination and an original anthropology of thought. An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination by Carlo Severi Translated by Janet Lloyd Foreword by David GraeberДЄvailable in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo SeveriвЂ™s The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples.

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