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Astonishment and evocation : the spell of culture in art and anthropology /
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 broade...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in rhetoric and culture ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 201 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0857459368 9780857459367 1299777732 9781299777736 |