Abstract
In reading Aby Warburg's Schlangenritual [Serpent Ritual],1 the many philological questions on the legibility of his text coincide with ethnological perspectives that concern the legibility of the signs of a foreign culture. Warburg's attempt to understand the symbolic system of the Pueblo Indians, in other words to read foreign culture as a cultural text, is presented in a form that points in an extreme and therefore much clearer manner to the textuality of such images of other cultures as we have made for ourselves on the basis of ethnological or literary travel accounts. To my mind, Aby Warburg's Schlangenritual is therefore particularly suitable as a starting point for a discussion of the concept of reading in terms of cultural anthropology. The intention is to highlight the possibilities and the methodical perspectives afforded by the paradigm of
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