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An anthropology of the subject : holographic worldview in New Guinea and its meaning and significance for the world of anthropology

Title
An anthropology of the subject : holographic worldview in New Guinea and its meaning and significance for the world of anthropology / Roy Wagner.
Author
Wagner, Roy, 1938-2018
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.

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Description
xxi, 267 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
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. In studying the human subject and the way human culture mirrors itself, Wagner has redefined holography as "the exact equivalence, or comprehensive identity, of part and whole in any human contingency".
Subject
  • Anthropology > Philosophy
  • 73.02 philosophy and theory of ethnology
  • Anthropology > Philosophy
  • Philosophische Anthropologie
  • Anthropologie
  • Culturele antropologie
  • Filosofische aspecten
  • Antropologia filosófica
  • Épistémologie
  • Anthropologie > Philosophie
  • Ethnologie > Nouvelle-Guinée (île)
  • Iwi taketake
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-261) and index.
Contents
The Human Hologram -- To Be Caught in Indra's Net -- Where Is the Meaning in a Trope? -- A Sociality Reperceived -- Our Sense of Their Humor: Their Sense of Ours -- The Trap of Iconicity -- The Story of Eve -- The Icon of Incest -- The Queen's Daughter and the King's Son -- The Consumer Consumed -- The Echo-Subject -- Echolocation -- Imaginary Spaces -- The Cakra of Johann Christian Bach -- The Near-Life Experience -- Cakra -- Reinventing the Wheel -- The Physical Education of the Wheel -- Sex in a Mirror -- The Single Shape of Metaphor in All Things.
ISBN
  • 0520225864
  • 9780520225862
  • 0520225872
  • 9780520225879
LCCN
00061991
OCLC
  • ocm44777261
  • 44777261
  • SCSB-1207618
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library