| Description |
xxi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. The Human Hologram -- 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 -- II. The Trap of Iconicity -- 5. The Story of Eve -- 6. The Icon of Incest -- 7. The Queen's Daughter and the King's Son -- 8. The Consumer Consumed -- III. The Echo-Subject -- 9. Echolocation -- 10. Imaginary Spaces -- 11. The Cakra of Johann Christian Bach -- 12. The Near-Life Experience -- IV. Cakra -- 13. Reinventing the Wheel -- 14. The Physical Education of the Wheel -- 15. Sex in a Mirror -- 16. The Single Shape of Metaphor in All Things |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anthropological linguistics.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Cognition and culture.
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Language and culture.
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Social perception.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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| SUBJECT |
Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116522
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| LC no. |
00061991 |
| ISBN |
0520225864 : |
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0520225872 paperback |
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