The Invention of Culture
Roy Wagner
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Description for The Invention of Culture
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
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 1981, 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 relationship between invention and convention, innovation and control, 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 ... Read more
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 1981, 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 relationship between invention and convention, innovation and control, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226423289
SKU
V9780226423289
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About Roy Wagner
Roy Wagner is professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. Tim Ingold is chair of social anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.
Reviews for The Invention of Culture
This new edition of one of the masterworks of twentieth-century anthropology is more than welcome. It will make new readers of us. The way in which Wagner unlocked Western conventions of thinking and writing, revealing what is always on the other side, remains foundational to anthropology's aspirations to be a critical discipline. It is conceptually, persistently radical. Here twenty-first century ... Read more