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CAPTURING IMAGINATION Hau BOOks Editors Giovanni da Col Niloofar Haeri Julie Archambault Editorial Office Faun Rice Sheehan Moore Michael Chladek Michelle Beckett Justin Dyer Ian Tuttle www.haubooks.com CAPTURING IMAGINATION A PRoPoSAl FoR AN ANTHRoPoloGy oF THouGHT By Carlo Severi Translated by Catherine V. Howard, Matthew Carey, Eric Bye, Ramon Fonkoue, and Joyce suechun Cheng Hau Books Chicago 20 © 20 Hau Books Cover: Nail figure, Congo, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris Cover and layout design: Sheehan Moore Typesetting: Prepress Plus (www.prepressplus.in) 978-1-912808-50-2 ISBN: lCCN: 2018952264 Hau Books Chicago Distribution Center 11030 S. langley Chicago, Il 60628 www.haubooks.com Hau Books is printed, marketed, and distributed by The university of Chicago Press. www.press.uchicago.edu Printed in the united States of America on acid-free paper. To Gabriella, Matteo, and Cosimo, my traveling companions I’ vo come colui ch’è fuor di vita, che pare, a chi lo sguarda, ch’omo sia fatto di rame o di pietra o di legno, che si conduca sol per maestria e porti ne lo core una ferita che sia, com’ egli è morto, aperto segno. I wander like a lifeless being, who looks, they say, as though he’s made of copper, stone, or wood, and moves by strings another wields. upon his breast, an open wound reveals the tale of how he died. —Guido Cavalcanti, Rima VIII Table of Contents List of Figures xiii Translator’s Note xix Acknowledgments xxi Chapter One. On Living Objects and the Anthropology of Thought 1 Kūkai’s Vision 7 levels of Cognition 16 Anthropology and Pragmatics 19 Ethnography and Thought 22 Chapter Two. Primitivist Empathy: Intensifying the Image and Deciphering Space 25 The Stakes of Formal Borrowings 34 Carl Einstein, or Immobile Ecstasy 41 Primitivism without Borrowing: Imaginary Filiation 46 Iconography and Gaze-Games 56 Chapter Three. The Universe of the Arts of Memory 61 An Exercise in Methodology 61 Amerindian Arts of Memory: A Case Study 70 Pictography and Memory: A Model 77 Eponymous Animals: Northwest Coast Visual Culture 83
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