Symbols that Stand for Themselves - Couverture souple

Wagner, Roy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226869296 ISBN 13 : 9780226869292

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Roy Wagner is professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. Tim Ingold is chair of social anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226869296
• ISBN 13: 9780226869292
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 157
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