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The invention of culture / Roy Wagner ; with a new foreword by Tim Ingold.
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Title:The invention of culture / Roy Wagner ; with a new foreword by Tim Ingold.
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Author/Creator:Wagner, Roy, 1938-2018 author.
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Published/Created:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: GN357 .W33 2016
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Number of Items:1
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Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 04-15-2024
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Culture.
Anthropology.
Symbolism.
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Medical Subjects: Anthropology
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Edition:Second edition.
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Description:xxxii, 168 pages ; 23 cm
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Summary:"In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his analysis in the relationships between invention and convention, innovation and control, and meaning and context, he builds a theory that insists on the importance of creativity, placing people-as-inventors at the heart of the process that creates culture. In an elegant twist, he shows that this very process ultimately produces the discipline of anthropology itself. Tim Ingold's foreword to the new edition captures the exhilaration of Wagner's book while showing how the reader can journey through it and arrive safely--though transformed--on the other side"--The publisher.
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Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780226423289 paperback alkaline paper
022642328X paperback alkaline paper
9780226423319 electronic book
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Assumption of Culture
idea of culture
Making culture visible
invention of culture
ch. 2 Culture as Creativity
Fieldwork is work in the field
ambiguity of "culture"
wax museum
"Road belong culture"
ch. 3 Power of Invention
Invention is culture
Control
necessity of invention
magic of advertising
ch. 4 Invention of Self
important message for you about the makers of time
Learning personality
On "doing your own thing": The world of immanent humanity
Learning humanity
ch. 5 Invention of Society
Cultural "change": Social convention as inventive flow
invention of language
invention of society
rise of civilizations
ch. 6 Invention of Anthropology
allegory of man
Controlling culture
Controlling nature
end of synthetic anthropology.