Symbols that Stand for Themselves
ISBN-13:
9780226869292
ISBN-10:
0226869296
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Roy Wagner
Publication date:
1989
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
157 pages
Category:
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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ISBN-13:
9780226869292
ISBN-10:
0226869296
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Roy Wagner
Publication date:
1989
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
157 pages
Category:
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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Symbols that Stand for Themselves (ISBN-13: 9780226869292 and ISBN-10: 0226869296), written by authors
Roy Wagner, was published by University of Chicago Press in 1989.
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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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