Astonishment and Evocation: The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology

Published by Berghahn Books 2013

Astonishment and Evocation

The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology

Edited by: Ivo Strecker and Markus Verne

Volume 5 in the series Studies in Rhetoric and Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857459367

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

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.

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.

Reviews

“The constituent essays are well written, often innovative within the current climate, and admirably integrated both in terms of their basic themes and the many strands of Stephen Tyler's thought.” · Paul Friedrich, University of Chicago

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Ivo Strecker and Markus Verne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Image
CHAPTER 1 Do Pictures Stare? Thoughts about Six Elements of Attention Todd Oakley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
CHAPTER 2 Gazing at Paintings and the Evocation of Life Philippe-Joseph Salazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
CHAPTER 3 Tangled Up in Blue: Symbolism and Evocation Boris Wiseman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
CHAPTER 4 Co-Presence, Astonishment, and Evocation in Cinematography Ivo Strecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Part II Performance
CHAPTER 5 Captivated by Ritual: Visceral Visitations and the Evocation of Community Klaus-Peter Köpping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
CHAPTER 6 The Spell of Riddles Among the Witoto Jürg Gasché Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
CHAPTER 7 Sounds of the Past: Music, History, and Astonishment Markus Verne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
CHAPTER 8 Tears, Not So Idle Tears. “Time Binding,” Lachrymose Emotionality, and Ethnographic Disambiguation James W. Fernandez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part III Text
CHAPTER 9 Stones, Drumbeats, and Footprints in the Writing of the Other Dennis Tedlock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
CHAPTER 10 The Translation of the Said and the Unsaid in Sikkanese Ritual Texts E. Douglas Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
CHAPTER 11 Ethnographic Evocations and Evocative Ethnographies Barbara Tedlock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
CHAPTER 12 Reading Public Culture: Reason and Excess in the Newspaper Robert Hariman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 212
Keywords: Cultural Studies (General); Anthropology (General); Media Studies

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Published: June 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780857459367