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Author Wagner, Roy, 1938-2018

Title Coyote anthropology / Roy Wagner
Published Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations
Contents Tricking magic : the anthropology of coyote -- Expersonation : the coyote of anthropology -- Obviation -- The book of symmetries
Summary The author repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaning--in terms of what anthropology perceives, how it goes about representing its subjects, and how it understands and legitimizes itself. Of particular concern is that meaning is comprehended and created through a complex process predicated on what is not there--the unspoken, the unheard, the unknown--as much as on what is there. Such powerful absences, described by the author as "anti-twins," are crucial for the invention of cultures and any discipline that proposes to study them. Coyote anthropology should be as much concerned with absence as with presence if it is to depict accurately the dynamic and creative worlds of others. Furthermore, the author suggests that anthropologists not only be aware of what informs and conditions their discipline but also understand the range of necessary exclusions that permit anthropology to do what it does
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Subject Castaneda, Carlos, 1931-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation
Coyote (Mythological character) -- Legends
SUBJECT Castaneda, Carlos, 1931-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation
Coyote (Mythological character) fast
Castaneda, Carlos, 1931-1998 fast
Castaneda, Carlos 1925-1998 gnd
Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy
Culture -- Philosophy
Culture -- Semiotic models.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Culture -- Semiotic models
Culture -- Philosophy
Anthropology -- Philosophy
Anthropologie
Methodologie
Socialantropologi -- teori, filosofi.
Genre/Form Legends
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803230071
0803230079
1282749285
9781282749283
9786612749285
6612749288