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An anthropology of the subject : holographic worldview in New Guinea and its meaning and significance for the world of anthropology / Roy Wagner.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Roy, 1938-2018, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Social Sciences.
- Anthropology--General.
- philosophical anthropology.
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropology.
- Social Sciences.
- Anthropology--General.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in The Invention of Culture and Symbols That Stand for Themselves, respectively), now does the same for the "subject" and subjectivity.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Abstract of the Argument; Introduction; 1. To Be Caught in Indra's Net; 2. Where Is the Meaning in a Trope?; 3. A Sociality Reperceived; 4. Our Sense of Their Humor: Their Sense of Ours; 5. The Story of Eve; 6. The Icon of Incest; 7. The Queen's Daughter and the King's Son; 8. The Consumer Consumed; 9. Echolocation; 10. Imaginary Spaces; 11. The Cakra of Johann Christian Bach; 12. The Near-Life Experience; 13. Reinventing the Wheel; 14. The Physical Education of the Wheel; 15. Sex in a Mirror.
- 16. The Single Shape of Metaphor in All ThingsGlossary of Unfamiliar Concepts; Notes; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed June 11, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wagner, Roy, 1938- Anthropology of the subject.
- ISBN:
- 9780520925823
- 0520925823
- 0585391688
- 9780585391687
- 9780520225862
- 0520225864
- 9780520225879
- 0520225872
- 1597344702
- 9781597344708
- OCLC:
- 49570334
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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