ISBN:
9780520925823
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0520925823
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0585391688
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9780585391687
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxi, 267 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Anthropology of the subject
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Anthropology Philosophy
;
Anthropology Philosophy
;
Anthropology Philosophy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
;
Anthropology ; Philosophy
;
Anthropology
;
Social Sciences
;
Anthropology - General
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
16. The Single Shape of Metaphor in All ThingsGlossary of Unfamiliar Concepts; Notes; Index.
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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