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Wagner, Roy was born on October 2, 1938 in Cleveland. Son of Richard Robert and Florence Helen (Mueller) Wagner.
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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."
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This important new work by Roy Wagner is about the autonomy of symbols and their role in creating culture. Its argument, anticipated in the author's previous book, The Invention of Culture, is at once symbolic, philosophical, and evolutionary: meaning is a form of perception to which human beings are physically and mentally adapted. Using examples from his many years of research among the Daribi people of New Guinea as well as from Western culture, Wagner approaches the question of the creation of meaning by examining the nonreferential qualities of symbols—such as their aesthetic and formal properties—that enable symbols to stand for themselves.
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Wagner, Roy was born on October 2, 1938 in Cleveland. Son of Richard Robert and Florence Helen (Mueller) Wagner.
Wagner received a Bachelor of Arts in Medieval History from Harvard University (1961), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1966), where he studied under David M. Schneider.
He taught at Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University before accepting the chairmanship of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he currently teaches. He resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. () () () () () () () 1977 - “Scientific and Indigenous Papuan Conceptualizations of the Innate”, in Bayliss-Smith, Timothy e Feachem, Richard (ed), Subsistence and Survival (New York: Academic Press).
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Fellow American Anthropol. Association.
Married Brenda Sue Geilhausen, June 14, 1968 (divorced December 1994). Children: Erika Susan, Jonathan Richard.