Invention of Culture

Name: Invention of Culture
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ISBN: 9780226869346

ISBN-10: 0226869342

ISBN-13: 9780226869346

Edition: 2nd 1981

Authors: Roy Wagner

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 189
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Assumption of Culture The idea of culture Making culture visible The invention of culture



Culture as Creativity Fieldwork is work in the field The ambiguity of ""culture"" The wax museum ""Road belong culture""



The Power of Invention Invention is culture Control The necessity of invention The magic of advertising



The Invention of Self An important message for you about the makers of time Learning personality On ""doing your own thing"": The world of immanent humanity Learning