Art Effects
eBook - ePub

Art Effects

Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia

  1. 450 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Art Effects

Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia

About this book

In Art Effects Carlos Fausto explores the interplay between indigenous material culture and ontology in ritual contexts, interpreting the agency of artifacts and indigenous presences and addressing major themes in anthropological theory and art history to study ritual images in the widest sense. Fausto delves into analyses of the body, aerophones, ritual masks, and anthropomorphic effigies while making a broad comparison between Amerindian visual regimes and the Christian imagistic tradition. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in Amazonia, Fausto offers a rich tapestry of inductive theorizing in understanding anthropology's most complex subjects of analysis, such as praxis and materiality, ontology and belief, the power of images and mimesis, anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, and animism and posthumanism. Art Effects also brims with suggestive, hemispheric comparisons of South American and North American indigenous masks. In this tantalizing interdisciplinary work with echoes of Franz Boas, Pierre Clastres, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, among others, Fausto asks: how do objects and ritual images acquire their efficacy and affect human beings?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Orthographic Conventions
  11. Introduction: The Smirk
  12. 1. Body-Artifact
  13. 2. Wild Mysteries
  14. 3. Whirlwinds of Images
  15. 4. The Pronominal Effigy
  16. 5. A Chief’s Two Bodies
  17. Conclusion: Masters of Deceit
  18. Source Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index
  22. About Carlos Fausto
  23. About David Rodgers