The invention of culture
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Author
Publication
1981 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveinventionculture00wagn
- Internet Archiveinventionofcultu0000wagn
- ISBN-139780226869346
- ISBN-100226869334
- ISBN-100226869342
and 7 more
- ISBN-139780226869339
- Goodreads3588335', '2764921
- Library of Congress Control Number80025482
- OCLC Control Number6890138
- Better World Books9780226869346
- Better World Books9780226869339
- Open LibraryOL4110526M
Classifications
- DDC306
- LCCGN357 .W33 1981
Description
"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" -- From the publisher.
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