Chapter 1: On Living Objects and the Anthropology of Thought
Kūkai’s Vision
Levels of Cognition
Anthropology and Pragmatics
Ethnography and Thought
Chapter 2: Primitivist Empathy: Intensifying the Image and Deciphering Space
The Stakes of Formal Borrowings
Carl Einstein, or Immobile Ecstasy
Primitivism without Borrowing: Imaginary Filiation
Iconography and Gaze-Games
Chapter 3: The Universe of the Arts of Memory
An Exercise in Methodology
Amerindian Arts of Memory: A Case Study
Pictography and Memory: A Model
Eponymous Animals: Northwest Coast Visual Culture
Pictograms and Andean Khipus
Principles of Mnemonic Encoding
Chapter 4: Authorless Authority: Forms of Authority in Oral Traditions
Evidentials, Pragmatics, and Artifacts
The Fang Mvet: Singer, Song, and Harp
Rethinking the West African Nail Figure
The Complex Artifact
Chapter 5: Giving Voice: When Images Speak
Speech and Ritual Images
Here-Now-I: Demonstrative Images and Speech Acts
Kolossoi and Kouroi; or The Pragmatics of Images
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Becoming Patroclus: Funerary Rituals and Games in The Iliad
The Image Through the Text: Identification, Hierarchy, and Prefiguration
Funerary Games as Quasi-Rituals
Reflections on Funeral Rituals among the Wari’
The Universe of Object-Persons
Chapter 7: The Anthropology of Abstract Art
Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Anthropology of Art
Principles of Analysis: An Example from Kandinsky
Visual Strategies in Abstract Art
Chapter 8: Chimeric Space: Perception and Projection
The Visible and Invisible in Works of Art
Perception and Projection in the Gaze
Symbolism and Transitional Space
Chimeras and Ambiguous Images
Wayana and Yekuana Iconography: Chimeras in the Amazon
Conclusion
Chapter 9: The Semblance of Life: The Epistemology of Western Perspective
A Science of Description: Imitare and Ritrarre
Models of Truth
Poetry Without Words or Blind Painting?
The Counterfactual Image
New Meditations on a Hobby Horse
Perspective and the Anthropology of Images
From Presence to the Active Gaze
The Witness-Figure and Capriccio
Chapter 10: On Irrefutable Hypotheses