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Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance - Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art (Hardcover)
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Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance - Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art (Hardcover)
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The legacy of the art and cultural scientist Aby Warburg offers
many subjects for reassessment. Almost unknown until now are the
artifacts he collected on a journey through the southwest of the US
in 1895/96 and donated to the Museum fur Voelkerkunde in Hamburg
(today Museum am Rothenbaum). The results first unfolded in
Warburg's famous lecture on the "snake ritual" of the Hopi (1923).
Following Warburg's transdisciplinary approach, this publication
examines his guiding principles in assembling his collection as
well as his reading of Pueblo art and culture. It pays tribute to
the works and their artistic significance and sheds light on the
circumstances of acquisition in the sociopolitical environment of
the Pueblo communities of the time. The contemporary fascination
with the snake ritual is also a topic. Set against this are the
previously neglected perspectives and strategies of Pueblo leaders
to regain interpretive sovereignty over culturally sensitive
content and imagery.
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