Warburg antropólogo ou o deciframento de uma utopia: da biologia das imagens à antropologia da memória
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.231106Keywords:
Cryptoglyphs, Memory, Biology of images, Sepik, MnemonicsAbstract
Nós tentamos mostrar que as pesquisas há muito reunidas sob o nome de biologia da arte constituíram as raízes esquecidas do pensamento antropológico de Aby Warburg. Conhecidas por ele em 1895-1896, essas perspectivas nutririam sua reflexão até o final de sua vida em 1927. A partir da análise etnográfica da representação de nomes próprios no Sepik, nós tentaremos em seguida mostrar que, para tentar decifrar a utopia que testemunha seu pensamento – formular uma antropologia da memória social tal como ela se funda sobre as tradições iconográficas –, é necessário retomar, de um ponto de vista crítico, o método morfológico da biologia da arte, e sua maneira de reconstruir as operações mentais implicadas no deciframento das imagens.
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