Symbols That Stand for Themselves

by Roy Wagner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226869296
• ISBN13: 9780226869292
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"