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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.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 267 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520925823
  • 0520925823
  • 0585391688
  • 9780585391687
  • 9780520225862
  • 0520225864
  • 9780520225879
  • 0520225872
  • 1597344702
  • 9781597344708
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anthropology of the subject.DDC classification:
  • 301/.01 21
LOC classification:
  • GN33 .W28 2001eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

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.

English.

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