On the Emic Gesture: Difference and Ethnography in Roy Wagner

by Iracema H Dulley and Iracema Dulley

Roy Wagner's work deals with two fundamental issues in anthropology: how to describe difference, and where to place it in anthropological discourse. His discussion and displacement of anthropological concepts such as 'group' and 'culture' in the 1970s and 1980s have arguably encouraged a deconstructive undertaking in the discipline. Yet Wagner's work, although part of the radicalizing move of the 1970s and 1980s in anthropology, was until some...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138314153
• ISBN13: 9781138314153
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"