Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook312 pages4 hours
The Invention of Culture
By Roy Wagner and Tim Ingold
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
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.
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.
Unavailable
Read more from Roy Wagner
The Invention of Culture Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Logic of Invention Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Invention of Culture
Related ebooks
Poetics as a Theory of Everything Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwo Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInquiries and Opinions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnti-Nietzsche Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Variety: The Life of a Roman Concept Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAvailable Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAs Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe World of H.G. Wells Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExotic No More: Anthropology for the Contemporary World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lacan: In Spite Of Everything Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maps for a Fiesta: A Latina/o Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLast Rites Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Complete Works of Brander Matthews Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Religion of Socialism: Being Essays in Modern Socialist Criticism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNeglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFuture Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReflections on Fieldwork in Morocco: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5World: An Anthropological Examination Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Modernity on Endless Trial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heading for the Scene of the Crash: The Cultural Analysis of America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnthropology of the Self: The Individual in Cultural Perspective Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Social Science For You
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verbal Judo, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Men Explain Things to Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Close Encounters with Addiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific, and Strategic Prayer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for The Invention of Culture
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
2 ratings0 reviews