The Invention of Culture - Softcover

Wagner, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226869342 ISBN 13: 9780226869346

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1981

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Book by Wagner Roy

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Reseña del editor:

The Invention of Culture, one of the most important works in symbolic anthropology in recent years, argues that culture is not a given that shapes the lives of the people who share it. Rather, it is people who shape their culture by constantly manipulating conventional symbols taken from a variety of everchanging codes to create new meanings. Wagner sees culture arising from the dialectic between the individual and the social world; his analysis is situated in the relation between invention and convention, innovation and control, meaning and context. Finally, the author points out that the symbolization processes that generate the construction of meaning in culture are the same as those that anthropologists use to "invent" the cultures they study.

Biografía del autor:

Roy Wagner is professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. Tim Ingold is chair of social anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0226869342
• ISBN 13: 9780226869346
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190