{"product_id":"art-effects-image-agency-and-ritual-in-amazonia-hardback-9781496220448","title":"Art Effects; Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia (Hardback) 9781496220448","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArt Effects\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImage, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarlos Fausto (Author), David Rodgers (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496220448\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 August 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e420 pages, 45 photographs, 11 illustrations, 5 maps, 7 tables, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eArt Effects\u003c\/i\u003e is clearly a must-read for Americanists, who will find in it valuable syntheses, acute ethnographic analyses-particularly of Xinguanan and Parakana rituals, and a wealth of suggestive ideas. Beyond this specialized readership, anyone interested in the question of what art is and what it does will profit from reading this highly intelligent and engaging book.”-Anne-Christine Taylor, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eArt Effects\u003c\/i\u003e] opens enormous comparative possibilities and understanding of other South American areas, helping us to unravel ethnological complexes and features of great breadth. . . . [It] constitutes a solid step in the forging of that comparative dialogue between Amerindian peoples of the vast South America that we so badly need.”-Juan Javier Rivera Andia, \u003ci\u003eAnthropos\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The ethnographic depth and analytical richness of Fausto’s \u003ci\u003eArt Effects\u003c\/i\u003e are remarkable. The book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through processes of image- and artifact-making among a number of Lowland South American societies.”-Paolo Fortis, \u003ci\u003eHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This is the book we have been waiting for. If perspectivism and the ontological turn brought Amazonia in from the cold to enter mainstream anthropology, Fausto’s \u003ci\u003eArt Effects \u003c\/i\u003emoves the debate forward. . . . Fausto takes us beyond philosophizing and back to the real-life world of masks, musical instruments, and painted images at the heart of Amerindian culture.”-Stephen Hugh-Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A liberating text for all those seeking to escape the anthropomorphic bias of image theory. Carlos Fausto’s immersion in two different Amazonian societies allows him to upend some of the reigning models of figuration, mimesis, and presence. Critically engaged, his writing is lucid and engaging.”-Z. S. Strother, author of I\u003ci\u003enventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“[An] enriching and thought-provoking book. . . . Fausto establishes a constant dialogue between the interpretation of ethnography and the current debates in social anthropology, art history, aesthetics, and philosophy. A great achievement.”-Carlo Severi, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eArt Effects\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Native visual regimes and the Christian imagistic tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eArt Effects\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Orthographic Conventions\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Smirk\u003cbr\u003e 1. Body-Artifact\u003cbr\u003e 2. Wild Mysteries\u003cbr\u003e 3. Whirlwinds of Images\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Pronominal Effigy\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Chief’\u003cbr\u003es Two Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Masters of Deceit\u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599905222936,"sku":"9781496220448","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/art-effects-image-agency-and-ritual-in-amazonia-hardback-9781496220448","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}