Forms of the Visible : An Anthropology of Figuration

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Forms of the Visible : An Anthropology of Figuration

Descola, Philippe/ Porter, Catherine (TRN)

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Polity Press（2025/09発売）
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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 637 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781509561964

Full Description

Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist's imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through the world depends on where we are situated in the four regions of the ontological archipelago: animism, naturalism, totemism or analogism. Each of these four regions corresponds to a way of conceiving the objects that make up the world, of perceiving the continuities and discontinuities in the folds of the world and of drawing the dividing lines between humans and nonhumans.

From Alaskan Yup'ik masks and Aboriginal bark paintings to miniature landscapes from the Song dynasty and Dutch Golden Age interior scenes: each image reveals, through what it shows or fails to show, a certain figurative regime, identifiable by the formal means it uses and by the device through which it can unleash its power to act. The figurative regime enables us to grasp - sometimes better than words can - the contrasting ways of living that characterize the human condition and its relation to the nonhuman. By comparing a great diversity of visual images and artworks, Descola masterfully lays the theoretical foundations for an anthropology of figuration.

One of the world's leading anthropologists, Philippe Descola has developed a comparative anthropology of relations between humans and nonhumans that has revolutionized both the human sciences and our ways of thinking about the great ecological issues of our time. His new book will be of great value to students and scholars of anthropology, visual art and art history and to anyone interested in art, culture and the relations between the human and nonhuman worlds.

Preface
1. The Folds of the World
     Layers of invisibility
     The embodied sign
     Ontologies of images
     Geometries of figuration
     Forms of ostension and powers to act


PART ONE: PRESENCES


2. Embodied Spirits
     Animal persons
     Think animals
     Who's there?
     Distinguishing resemblances
     Ontological camouflage
3. Multiplying Viewpoints

4. Relational Identities


PART TWO. INDICES

5. Types of Beings and Courses of Life
     Figuring the ordering
     Figuring the organizer
     Figuring the traces of the organizing

6. A Heraldry of Qualities

7. The Power of Traces


Variation 1. Repertoire-Image and Person-Image


PART THREE. CORRESPONDENCES


8. Exercises in Composition                                              Hybrids and chimeras
     Pictured bonds
     The great world and the small one

9.Conjunctive Spaces

10. Role Playing


PART FOUR: SIMULACRA


11. Facing the World
     The conquest of the visible
     Painting the soul
     Instituting nature
     Toward immanence
     Impossible objectivity

12. Objectivizing the Subjective

13. Detecting Resemblance


Variation 2. Playing on All Fronts


Conclusion. Image-Making
     Ontologies
     Forms
     Agencies                                                    Incarnations


Postscript. Scaffoldings

     The quarrel over resemblance
     Animating images
     Imaged languages


Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Tables