In 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 1981, 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
relationship between invention and convention, innovation and
control, 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 those very processes ultimately produce the discipline
of anthropology itself. This new edition, with a foreword by Tim
Ingold, puts the book in context of current debates and makes an
unimpeachable case for its status as a classic in the field.
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