Symbols that Stand for Themselves by Roy Wagner

Symbols that Stand for Themselves by Roy Wagner

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.

Roy Wagner is a professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books, including An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology and Symbols that Stand for Themselves.

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ISBN 13	9780226869292
ISBN 10	0226869296
Titel	Symbols that Stand for Themselves
Autor	Roy Wagner
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1989-05-17
Seitenanzahl	157
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