...The book concludes with a consideration of how to generate a new understanding of spectatorship in postwar Japan using hybrid methods drawn from Film Studies and Anthropology, as well as Memory Studies and Oral History. Examining what the testimony of viewers can tell us suggests that audience...

...). The chapter isolates three ways in which philosophers conceptualised the process of divine communication as part of their broader cosmologies and. anthropologies: 1) the direct involvement of the god, 2) intermediary daimons, 3) the innate capacity of the human soul. It then reads Paul’s letters...

... cinema verité Cultural anthropology Cunningham Bill Fashion history Fashion photography Street photography Vertov Dziga Bill Cunningham, the legendary New York Times photographer, who died in 2016 at the age of eighty-seven, knew intuitively that it is not only stars...

...This chapter principally focuses on the controversial figure of Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), the founder of the Italian school of criminal anthropology and one of the most influential late nineteenth-century thinkers. Starting from the premise that the fin de siècle...

... Bough The Frazer Primitive Culture Tylor Tylor E B Wagner Richard Futurism Ivory Apes and Peacocks Huneker Marinetti Filippo Tommaso ‘Melancholy of Masterpieces Part Unicorns Huneker James Huneker Futurism Painted Veils Sex Anthropology James Huneker is now a somewhat neglected figure...

... Eisenstein Sergei Latour Bruno Peixoto Mario slow cinema temps mort Viveiros de Castro Eduardo differentiation Balázs Béla affection image Enigma of Kaspar Hauser The on screen Wild Child The multiplicity multiple Sensory Cinema The Nonhuman Affect Theory Film Ethnography Anthropology Animal...

...Di Leo embarks on a metaphorical journey to find the source of the Nile, seeking to discover the source of male domination. The essay draws from a wide range of ground-breaking studies across disciplines (from anthropology to philosophy and political thinking) and, in particular, from the work...

...The second chapter reconstructs in a synthetic and preliminary way the essential points of Spinoza's anthropology and political philosophy. The definition of the relation between nature and things, as put forward in the Ethics, already has in itself a political significance...

...This chapter examines the dominant concepts that form the so-called ethnographic turn in contemporary art, including the cross-cultural approach. It first provides an overview of the notions of montage and animation that have been added to the media anthropological repertoire before discussing post...

... by the nationalist and national tradition of Mexican anthropology: a composite of pride, abjection, enthusiasm, and melancholia. The chapter considers the mutual intrusions between Bartra and the author as well as Bartra's intellectual vocation and anthropological motion in and out of Mexico, along...

... in search of an anthropology to come. fieldwork holograms Marcos Subcomandante Mexico Mexico City aesthetics hologram Mexico City fieldwork Subcomandante Marcos Zapatista Liberation Front anthropologists digital media Mexico incurable-image anthropology Anthropologists are familiar with post...

... anthropology totalitarianism ideology terror labor work action Life is worldless. This assumption forms the point of departure for Hannah Arendt’s engagements of the problem of worldlessness. ¹ Life and world are locked in a supplemental relationship. On the one hand, without life...

...Marcel Mauss’ The Gift is an original and unique anthropology of law. Law is the object and medium of the analysis, and the conceptual and political strategies of the text are closely adapted to the symptomatic tensions that Mauss elicits from law. And for Mauss these tensions were...

...In an attempt to overcome anthropologism philosophy has presented itself as an anthropomorphism: the leap to a site beyond where we are, a speculative dream of some ethics or law beyond the human. And it is in adopting such an apocalyptic tone of pure presence that the articulation of existence...

...This chapter sets the historical, anthropological and cosmopolitical context for the 13 other chapters assembled here. It is organised around the 5 thematic parts of the book. ‘The Indigenous Australian Experience of the Rhizome’ (Part One) explains Guattari’s interest for the rhizomatic practice...

... that it would have succumbed to human technologies. This article proposes to respond to the reduction of ontologies in anthropology with a “slow anthropology” that would be “standing with the Earth”, a slow anthropology based on a field experience, ecosophically inspired by visions and creativity of Indigenous...

... Ponty Maurice Sculpture Flight Outside Teleology Blanchot Maurice Metzinger Thomas Derrida Ends of Man Nietzsche Resentment Anthropology Revenge Contemporary neurobiological research is engaged in a deep redefinition of emotional life: the brain, far from being a non-sensuous organ, one...

...This introductory chapter surveys the notoriously ambivalent concept of debt. It connects different approaches to debt in social theory and anthropology to the book’s focus on how past debts are mobilised in political debates in the present, and how the ‘North’ has been portrayed as indebted...

...This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the ‘dead’ in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology. The author argues that concepts of the corpse as a semi-animate...

..., the chapterreconstructs his theological anthropology—one defined by both Enlightenment values and classical Islamic understandings of the God-world relation. Through a holistic reconstruction of Düzgün’s theological anthropology, the analysis shows that his dialectical use of both Islamic and “Western” concepts not only...