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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;112269 _d;18/05/2018
082			_a306 WAG
100			_aRoy Wagner
245			_a The invention of culture _c/Roy Wagner
260			_aChicago ; London _b: The University of Chicago Press _c, 2016
300			_axxxii, 168 pages _c; 23 cm.
505			_a The assumption of culture -- Culture as creativity -- The power of invention -- The invention of self -- The invention of society -- The invention of anthropology.
520			_aIn anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one. Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his analysis in the relationships between invention and convention, innovation and control, and meaning and context, he builds a theory that insists on the importance of creativity, placing people-as-inventors at the heart of the process that creates culture. In an elegant twist, he shows that this very process ultimately produces the discipline of anthropology itself. Tim Ingold's foreword to the new edition captures the exhilaration of Wagner's book while showing how the reader can journey through it and arrive safely--though transformed--on the other side"--The publisher.
650			_aSocial sciences
655			_aCulture & institutions _bAnthropology
700			_aRoy Wagner
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