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  • The Invention of Culture

    by Roy Wagner ...
    "This new edition of one of the masterworks of twentieth-century anthropology is more than welcome…enduringly significant insights."—Marilyn Strathern, emerita, University of CambridgeIn the field of anthropology, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one that does. Wagner breaks new ... Read more

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  • Coyote Anthropology

    by Roy Wagner ...
    Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropology’s vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner 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 ... Read more

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  • The Intellectual Legacy of Victor and Edith Turner

    In 2016, Edith Turner passed away. She left behind an intellectual legacy that, together with her husband, Victor Turner, transformed modern anthropology. This edited collection focuses on Victor and Edith Turner’s significant theoretical contributions, including their work on communitas, liminality, pilgrimage, friendship, fieldwork, self-reflection, affective culture, religion, spirits, and ... Read more

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  • The Relative Native

    Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds

    This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, “Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere.”Rounded out with new ... Read more

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  • The Logic of Invention

    by Roy Wagner ...
    In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language?Wagner explores what he calls “the reciprocity of perspectives” through a journey between Euro-American ... Read more

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  • Normative Texts and Occupational Practices

    Towards New Social Histories of Mathematics

    Edited by Senthil Babu D., Roy Wagner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book explores the relations between normative mathematical texts, which encode various forms of measurement, calculation and reasoning, and the practices of accountants, craftspeople, artisans and other social actors. Mathematics is often divided into a theoretical, intellectual, and normative component, on the one hand, and, on the other, a practical-applied component, ... Read more

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  • Philosophy Between the Lines

    The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

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    A People's History

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    China Against the World, 1000 BC–AD 2000

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    The Biology of Being Human

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