This important new work by Roy Wagner is about the autonomy of symbols and their role in creating culture. Its argument, anticipated in the author's previous book, The Invention of Culture, is at once symbolic, philosophical, and evolutionary: meaning is a form of perception to which human beings are physically and mentally adapted. Using examples from his many years of research among the Daribi people of New Guinea as well as from Western culture, Wagner approaches the question of the creation of meaning by examining the nonreferential qualities of symbols—such as their aesthetic and formal properties—that enable symbols to stand for themselves.
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habu men, analogic flow, retroactive implication, male contingency, relational analogy, organic time, modern cycle, mortuary feast, literal time, male wealth, cultural dialectic, core symbol, sensory range, sacramental doctrine, first closure, conventional reference, relationship sequence, point metaphor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Roy Wagner, University of Chicago Press, Latin Christendom, Richard Sennett, Fourth Lateran Council, John Wycliffe, Johannes Fabian, Papua New Guinea, The Fall of Public Man New!
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habu men, analogic flow, retroactive implication, male contingency, relational analogy, organic time, modern cycle, mortuary feast, literal time, male wealth, cultural dialectic, core symbol, sensory range, sacramental doctrine, first closure, conventional reference, relationship sequence, point metaphor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Roy Wagner, University of Chicago Press, Latin Christendom, Richard Sennett, Fourth Lateran Council, John Wycliffe, Johannes Fabian, Papua New Guinea, The Fall of Public Man New!
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- Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object by Johannes Fabian on 4 pages
- Walbiri Iconography: Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in a Central Australian Society by Nancy Munn on page 20, page 23, and Back Matter
- The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett on page 2, page 133, and Back Matter
- Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth As Symbolic Obviation (Symbol, Myth & Ritual) by Roy Wagner on page 31, and Back Matter
- Rethinking Symbolism (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Dan Sperber on page 9, and Back Matter
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- Natural Hierarchies: The Historical Sociology of Race and Caste by Chris Smaje on page 59, page 61, and Back Matter
- Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis by Sylvia Yanagisako on page 145, and page 173
- Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam by Andrew Wheatcroft in Back Matter
- Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism: Vol. 3. Cultures of Nature: An Essay on the Production of Nature by Lawrence Hazelrigg in Back Matter
- Minima Ethnographica: Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project by Michael Jackson in Back Matter
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