"Roy Wagner is a one-of-a-kind anthropologist whose books provide intense intellectual stimulation. His way of connecting the world of New Guinea to the world of anthropology is unique and, well, mind-blowing. . . . He writes books that you actually want to and will read more than once."--Steven Feld, author of "Sound and Sentiment" "Wagner asks, daringly, what it would be like to imagine one of the most significant of human activities, the activity of description or representation, as a self-scaling phenomenon. . . . One ...
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"Roy Wagner is a one-of-a-kind anthropologist whose books provide intense intellectual stimulation. His way of connecting the world of New Guinea to the world of anthropology is unique and, well, mind-blowing. . . . He writes books that you actually want to and will read more than once."--Steven Feld, author of "Sound and Sentiment" "Wagner asks, daringly, what it would be like to imagine one of the most significant of human activities, the activity of description or representation, as a self-scaling phenomenon. . . . One begins to glimpse a genuine 'alternative anthropology.'"--Marilyn Strathern, author of "The Gender of the Gift"
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Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xxi, 267 pp. Contents: The Human Hologram: To Be Caught in Indra's Net; Where Is the Meaning in a Trope? A Sociality Reperceived; Our Sense of Their Humor: Their Sense of Ours; The Trap of Iconicity: The Story of Eve; The Icon of Incest; The Queen's Daughter & the King's Son; The Consumer Consumed; The Echo-Subject: Echolocation; Imaginary Spaces; The Cakra of Johann Christian Bach; The Near-Life Experience; Cakra: Reinventing the Wheel; The Physical Education of the Wheel; Sex in a Mirror; The Single Shape of Metaphor in All Things.
