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Ref No	WIA GC/14619
Title	Warburg, Aby to Boas, Franz 13/12/1924
Writer	Warburg, Aby
Recipient	Boas, Franz
Date	13/12/1924
Format	typescript
Contents	refers to his slide lecture in Kreuzlingen; asks him to send him recent literature on linguistics and religion of the Pueblo Indians; encloses a photograph of a shepherd's crook; thinks that it hints at animal sacrifices; forwards two volumes of 'Vorträge'; the lectures were organised during Warburg's absence by his assistant Saxl; explains the programme of the library, the influence of classical antiquity is the phenomenological result of a psychological problem, the memory of the image as social function 'in the change from dynamic release to intentional tension'; refers to Cassirer's work as a product of the Bibliothek Warburg; refers to racism, of which the Germans became guilty by believing superstitiously that race guarantees spiritual qualities; finds the publication of the Latin Thesaurus most important; he speaks up for a Greek Thesaurus; he sees Germany's chance as a powerhouse of the mind; wants to find out whether Mr. [James] Mooney is still alive, the address of Rev. H.R. Voth and Miss Zelia Nuttall

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