The Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination Nick Mauss bell hooks

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The Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination Nick Mauss bell hooksAvailable in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severis The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non literate peoples. Setting himself against a tradition that has long seen the memory of people without writingwhich relies on such ephemeral records as ornaments, body painting, and masksas fundamentally disordered or doomed to failure, he argues