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Symbols that Stand for Themselves (Paperback): Roy Wagner

Symbols that Stand for Themselves (Paperback)

Roy Wagner

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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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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 1989
First published: May 1989
Authors: Roy Wagner
Dimensions: 127 x 204 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-86929-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN: 0-226-86929-6
Barcode: 9780226869292

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