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In fact, entire chapters of his book are devoted to Western art, even abstract art, and the pages in which he examines problems of perspective in Renaissance art are masterful.\" -- Francesco Remotti ― Il Nuovo Manifesto Societ� Cooperativa Editrice \"Interwoven in his analysis and discussion of particular cases, Severi makes his most remarkable breakthroughs. . . . The richness of the cases studied, the results presented, and the notions proposed will be useful to any observer who grapples with images.\" -- Nicolas Sarzeaud ― Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales \"[A] dense work of great scholarly richness. The stated aim of the book is to elaborate an anthropology of art and, more broadly, to contribute to a general anthropology of forms of exercising thought. . . . 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Using data from different parts of the world and different historical periods, Severi keeps the reader so enthralled that the title, Capturing Imagination, ends up sounding like an augur. Let yourself be captured.\" -- Carlos Fausto, author of Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia \"The relation between person and object is a topic that has been central to theory in anthropology and to the method of ethnography since its inception. With this excellent English translation of L'Objet-personne, Carlo Severi invites us to revisit the legacy of assumptions and resulting models that have influenced how we conduct ourselves around objects, how we approach them in research and analysis, and how we account for the difference they make to culture and society. A tour de force on the topic of person and object and its manifold offshoots, the book is a must-read for anyone acquainted with earlier classics and their unanswered questions, which are exposed and debated here in the most nuanced, sophisticated, and hugely accessible and readable manner. This book indeed is a joy to read and a gift for anyone interested in the fundamental paradox of being human.\" -- Susanne Kuechler, author of Malanggan: Art, Memory and Sacrifice About the Author Carlo Severi is professor at the École des hautes �tudes en sciences sociales and director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701888258210,"sku":"","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/products\/download_70672af5-a011-4994-980b-14220b81755d.jpg?v=1665140191"},{"product_id":"9781107454507","title":"African Genesis by Reynolds, Sally C.","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781107454507\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCambridge University Press, 01 January 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 608 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of the first species of African hominin, Australopithecus africanus, from Taung, South Africa in 1924, launched the study of fossil man in Africa. 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