Capturing Imagination: A Proposal for an Anthropology of Thought
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Translator's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. On Living Objects and the Anthropology of Thought -- Kūkai's Vision -- Levels of Cognition -- Anthropology and Pragmatics -- Ethnography and Thought -- Chapter Two. Primitivist Empathy: Intensifying the Image and Deciphering Space -- The Stakes of Formal Borrowings -- Carl Einstein, or Immobile Ecstasy -- Primitivism without Borrowing: Imaginary Filiation -- Iconography and Gaze-Games -- Chapter Three. The Universe of the Arts of Memory -- An Exercise in Methodology -- Amerindian Arts of Memory: A Case Study -- Pictography and Memory: A Model -- Eponymous Animals: Northwest Coast Visual Culture -- Pictograms and Andean Khipus -- Principles of Mnemonic Encoding -- Chapter Four. Authorless Authority: Forms of Authority in Oral Traditions -- Evidentials, Pragmatics, and Artifacts -- The Fang Mvet: Singer, Song, and Harp -- Rethinking the West African Nail Figure -- The Complex Artifact -- Chapter Five. Giving Voice: When Images Speak -- Speech and Ritual Images -- Here-Now-I: Demonstrative Images and Speech Acts -- Kolossoi and Kouroi -- or The Pragmatics of Images -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six. Becoming Patroclus: Funerary Rituals and Games in the Iliad -- The Image Through the Text: Identification, Hierarchy, and Prefiguration -- Funerary Games as Quasi-Rituals -- Reflections on Funeral Rituals among the Wari' -- The Universe of Object-Persons -- Chapter Seven. The Anthropology of Abstract Art -- Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Anthropology of Art -- Principles of Analysis: An Example from Kandinsky -- Visual Strategies in Abstract Art -- Chapter Eight. Chimeric Space: Perception and Projection -- The Visible and Invisible in Works of Art -- Perception and Projection in the Gaze -- Symbolism and Transitional Space -- Chimeras and Ambiguous Images.