Evocation

de Abdel Hernández San Juan, Stephen A. Tyler

Evocation: A Philosophical Dialogues, is a major book developed between Abdel Hernández San Juan and Stephen A Tyler as a philosophical dialogue around the concept of evocation, the exchange of paper continuated to a new deeper level of theoretical development a tradition of analysis on evocation started by Stephen A Tyler, quoted by Clifford Geertz at his essay "Being Here" at the Anthropology as author about if evocation might or not offer alternatives to the contemporary situation of anthropology with representation in a contemporary world. The book developed as an exchange of papers/letters between both very abstract thinkers from the department of anthropology at Rice University, renew and relight to completly new paths the discusión on evocation by deeperly reconsidering it philosophically and was the basis as a famous starting point dialogue to a continuated series of theoretical dialogue later developed by Abdel and Stephen first since 1998 at Rice Anthropology and later through correspondence until 2014