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    The invention of culture / Roy Wagner ; with a new foreword by Tim Ingold.

    • 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.
    • Published/Created:Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Culture.
      Anthropology.
      Symbolism.
    • Medical Subjects: Anthropology
    • Edition:Second edition.
    • Description:xxxii, 168 pages ; 23 cm
    • 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.
    • Notes:Includes index.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780226423289 paperback alkaline paper
      022642328X paperback alkaline paper
      9780226423319 electronic book
    • 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.
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