The Invention of Culture - Softcover

Wagner, Roy

 
9780226869346: The Invention of Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226869342 ISBN 13: 9780226869346
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1981

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den 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
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226869342
ISBN 13 
9780226869346
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
190
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