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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Alfred Gell"”.
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Pu-abi's Adornment for the Afterlife: Materials and Technologies of Jewelry at Ur in Mesopotamia
… entailed methodological operations akin to what Alfred Gell has called the "technology of enchantment and enchantment of technology" and allowed these ornaments to materialize from their creation as a group of magically and ritually charged objects.
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An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’
… the researches of the British anthropologist Alfred Gell. Before exposing the cases of the widely acknowledged connections between the pattern making habits amongst certain hunter-gatherers tribes with the taking of entheogenic drugs during rituals, with the Shipibo people from the Peruvian …
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Semiose des Rituals : eine Kritik ritualtheoretischer Begriffsbildung
… Begriffe unter dem Gesichtspunkt des von Alfred Gell entwickelten Konzepts der Indexes of Agency zusammengetragen und unter dem Begriff der fraktalen Dynamik weitergeführt. Im fünften Kapitel geht es um das Verschieben des theoretischen Rahmens und Fokus. Dabei wird wieder eine …
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Internet Art and Agency: The Social Lives of Online Artworks
During the 1990s, artists started to explore the possibilities of the World Wide Web. This thesis investigates online artworks by studying their agency. Why do people interact with them, as if they are alive? How do they mobilise people, or make them share visions and ideas? Based on research in …