Astonishment and Evocation

Ivo Strecker is Emeritus Professor of cultural anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. He did and still does research with the Hamar in southern Ethiopia and has published widely about them. His film Father of the Goats (1984) received the “Prix Nanook” at the Bilan in Paris, and his theoretical study The Social Practice of Symbolization (1988) was selected by Choice as one of the “outstanding academic books of the year.” Together with Stephen Tyler and Robert Hariman he is editor of the Berghahn Books series Studies in Rhetoric and Culture.

• IntroductionIvo Strecker & Markus VernePRT I: IMAGEChapter 1. Do pictures stare? Thoughts about attentionTodd OakleyChapter 2. Gazing at paintings and the evocation of lifePhilippe-Joseph SalazarChapter 3. Tangled up in blue. Symbolism and evocationBoris WisemanChapter 4. Co-presence, astonishment and evocation in cinematographyIvo StreckerPART II: PERFORMANCEChapter 5. Captivated by ritual. Visceral visitations and the evocation of communityKlaus-Peter KöppingChapter 6. The spell of riddles among the WitotoJürg GaschéChapter 7. Sounds of the Past. Music, history and astonishmentMarkus VerneChapter 8. Tears, not so idle tears. Reflections on our entangled emotions and their disambiguationJames FernandezPART III: TEXTChapter 9. Stones, drumbeats, footprints and mysteries in the writing of the OtherDennis TedlockChapter 10. The translation of the said the unsaid in Sikkanese ritual textsDouglas LewisChapter 11. Ethnographic evocations and evocative ethnographiesBarbara TedlockChapter 12. Reading public culture: Reason and excess in the newspaperRobert Hariman

“The constituent essays are well written, often innovative within the current climate, and admirably integrated both in terms of their basic themes and the many strands of Stephen Tyler's thought.”  ·  Paul Friedrich, University of Chicago