The Invention of Culture
ISBN-13:
9780226869346
ISBN-10:
0226869342
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Roy Wagner
Publication date:
1981
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
189 pages
Category:
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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ISBN-13:
9780226869346
ISBN-10:
0226869342
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Roy Wagner
Publication date:
1981
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
189 pages
Category:
Social Sciences
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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The Invention of Culture (ISBN-13: 9780226869346 and ISBN-10: 0226869342), written by authors
Roy Wagner, was published by University of Chicago Press in 1981.
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The Invention of Culture, one of the most important works in symbolic anthropology in recent years, argues that culture is not a given that shapes the lives of the people who share it. Rather, it is people who shape their culture by constantly manipulating conventional symbols taken from a variety of everchanging codes to create new meanings. Wagner sees culture arising from the dialectic between the individual and the social world; his analysis is situated in the relation between invention and convention, innovation and control, meaning and context. Finally, the author points out that the symbolization processes that generate the construction of meaning in culture are the same as those that anthropologists use to "invent" the cultures they study.
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