The Invention of Culture
With a New Foreword by Tim Ingold
208 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1975, 1981, 2016
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Assumption of CulturePreface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The idea of culture
Making culture visible
The invention of culture
Chapter 2: Culture as CreativityMaking culture visible
The invention of culture
Fieldwork is work in the field
The ambiguity of “culture”
The wax museum
“Road belong culture”
Chapter 3: The Power of InventionThe ambiguity of “culture”
The wax museum
“Road belong culture”
Invention is culture
Control
The necessity of invention
The magic of advertising
Chapter 4: The Invention of SelfControl
The necessity of invention
The magic of advertising
An important message for you about the makers of time
Learning personality
On “doing your own thing”: The world of immanent humanity
Learning humanity
Chapter 5: The Invention of SocietyLearning personality
On “doing your own thing”: The world of immanent humanity
Learning humanity
Cultural “change”: Social convention as inventive flow
The invention of language
The invention of society
The rise of civilizations
Chapter 6: The Invention of AnthropologyThe invention of language
The invention of society
The rise of civilizations
The allegory of man
Controlling culture
Controlling nature
The end of synthetic anthropology
Index
Controlling culture
Controlling nature
The end of synthetic anthropology
Index
Review Quotes
Marilyn Strathern, emerita, University of Cambridge
“This new edition of one of the masterworks of twentieth-century anthropology is more than welcome. It will make new readers of us. The way in which Wagner unlocked Western conventions of thinking and writing, revealing what is always on the other side, remains foundational to anthropology’s aspirations to be a critical discipline. It is conceptually, persistently radical. Here twenty-first century readers have a particular advantage: in seeing through the language and form of a book that is obviously of its time, they will find its enduringly significant insights still ahead of its time. Translate its concerns into our current sense of crisis, and you will find that it was always about a future for anthropological thinking.”
Joel Robbins, University of Cambridge
“This is one of those rare books that succeeded in pressing the reset button on an entire discipline. Still wholly original from top to bottom, one cannot begin to understand where we are now without reading this book for the first time, if you have not already, and at least one more time if you already have. Its time, as it always has been since it first appeared, is now.”
Giovanni da Col, SOAS London, founder and editor of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
“Imagine looking into a mirror long enough to suddenly realize that you are no longer certain who is the subject looking and who the object being looked at. That displacing, life-changing uncanny mood that suggests to us that what we call subjectivity might not be a prior condition of existence at all has been labeled Hegelian, Freudian, Heideggerian. For me, the realization that all of the conceptual assumptions about a ‘native informant’ or a ‘culture’ could be reversed and that their misunderstanding of me was not the same as my misunderstanding of them will always be Wagnerian.”
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