Astonishment and Evocation The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology [Hardcover]

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 Tylers 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 works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. The book is divided into three parts covering the evocative power of visual art, the immersion in ritual and performance, and the reading, writing, and interpretation of texts. Taken as a whole, the contributions to the book demonstrate howastonishmentandevocationdeserve an important place in the conceptual repertoire of the human sciences.

Introduction
Ivo Strecker & Markus Verne

PRT I: IMAGE

Chapter 1.Do pictures stare? Thoughts about attention
Todd Oakley

Chapter 2.?Gazing at paintings and the evocation of life
Philippe-Joseph Salazar

Chapter 3.?Tangled up in blue. Symbolism and evocation
Boris Wiseman

Chapter 4.?Co-presence, astonishment and evocation in cinematography
Ivo Strecker

PART II: PERFORMANCE

Chapter 5.?Captivated by ritual. Visceral visitations and the evocation of community
Klaus-Peter K?pping

Chapter 6.The spell of riddles among the Witoto
J?rg Gasch?

Chapter 7.?Sounds of the Past. Music, history and astonishment
Markus Verne

Chapter 8.