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9780520225879

An Anthropology of the Subject

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520225879

  • ISBN10:

    0520225872

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

This book is about the ways in which culture is invented.

Author Biography

Roy Wagner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Abstract of the Argument xiii
Introduction xvii
I. THE HUMAN HOLOGRAM
To Be Caught in Indra's Net
3(15)
Where Is the Meaning in a Trope?
18(13)
A Sociality Reperceived
31(17)
Our Sense of Their Humor: Their Sense of Ours
48(19)
II. THE TRAP OF ICONICITY
The Story of Eve
67(14)
The Icon of Incest
81(16)
The Queen's Daughter and the King's Son
97(15)
The Consumer Consumed
112(17)
III. THE ECHO-SUBJECT
Echolocation
129(15)
Imaginary Spaces
144(14)
The Cakra of Johann Christian Bach
158(15)
The Near-Life Experience
173(18)
IV. CAKRA
Reinventing the Wheel
191(15)
The Physical Education of the Wheel
206(15)
Sex in a Mirror
221(15)
The Single Shape of Metaphor in All Things
236(15)
Glossary of Unfamiliar Concepts 251(6)
Notes 257(6)
Index 263

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