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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by David Graeber -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration sources -- Introduction -- 1. Warburg the anthropologist , or the decoding of a utopia : From the biology of images to the anthropology of memory -- Warburg: Visual symbols and chimeras -- Forgotten roots, or the biology of images -- Forms and ideas: Pitt-Rivers and the prophecy of the past -- Hjalmar Stolpe: Prototypes and cryptoglyphs -- A return to the lightning-snake -- Warburg the anthropologist, or the decoding of a utopia -- Image-sequences and chimera-objects -- Image-sequences -- Chimera-objects -- 2. An Amerindian mnemonic form: Pictography and parallelism -- A decoding of pictography: The Dakota Bible -- Pictography and shamanistic song: The Kuna case -- A few more Amerindian cases -- Pictography and mnemonic representation -- 3. Memory, projection, belief: Or, the metamorphoses of the locutor -- A complex locutor -- Projection and belief -- Sound and sense: A musical way of listening -- 4. Christ in America: Or, an antagonistic memory -- An Apache Christ -- Lady Sebastiana -- Image, conflict, and paradox -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Using philosophical and ethnographic theory, presents new approaches to ritual and memory, relating them to visual and sound images as acts of communication