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Roy Wagner (1938-2018): el espejo humeante de la antropología
Full text linkRoy Wagner died in September 2018. This article, written out of affection and admiration, shows the originality of Wagner’s thought and highlights its importance for understanding, not only current anthropology, increasingly influenced by his work, but also the anthropological machine and its great invention, culture. The article examines moments of his life and his tastes, and recounts anecdotes told by him to provide a better understanding of the disciplinary and theoretical links that Wagner estab-lished with authors like Claude Lévi-Strauss, Victor Turner, Gregory Bateson and Carlos Castaneda. The article concludes with an extensive bibliography for those who want to explore further the work of an author who is set to become a defining figure in the anthropology of the near future.Roy Wagner murió en septiembre de 2018. Este artículo, escrito desde el afecto y la admiración, muestra la originalidad del pensamiento de Wagner y destaca la importancia del mismo para entender no solo la antropología actual, cada vez más in-fluenciada por su trabajo, sino también el propio proceder antropológico y su gran invención: la cultura. El artículo se acerca a momentos de su biografía, a sus gustos y relata anécdotas por él contadas para entender mejor los vínculos disciplinares y teóri-cos que Wagner establece con autores como Claude Lévi-Strauss, Victor Turner, Gregory Bateson o Carlos Castaneda. El artículo incluye al final una amplia bibliografía suya para quienes quieran profundizar en la obra de un autor que va a marcar sin duda la antropología de los próximos tiempos
Roy Wagner: The Logic of Invention
Full text linkWagner, Roy 2019. The Logic of Invention. Chicago: HAU Books. 135 pp. ISBN: 9780999157053 (paperback); ISBN: 9781912808526 (E-book)
Ritual - Roy Wagner
No full textFonte EA - Augusto Ventura dos Santos e Olavo de Souza Pinto Filho O “ritual” é, para Roy Wagner (1938), análogo à “cultura”: ambos constituem um estilo interpretativo, um modo criativo que se utiliza de distinções convencionais para improvisar e produzir a diferença. A diferença entre eles é que o conceito de “cultura” é mobilizado para designar fenômenos mais abrangentes, enquanto o “ritual” é parte da “cultura” e constituiu uma modalidade específica de ação criativa que opera dentro dela..
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Interview on the Life and Work of Roy Wagner
No full textInterview on the life and work of the social anthropologist Roy Wagner in Melanesia and elsewher
WAGNER Roy, 2014 [1975]. L’invention de la culture
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Roy Wagner, L’invention de la culture
No full textLa publication en français du maître ouvrage de Roy Wagner, L’invention de la culture, constitue un événement éditorial d’importance. Centré sur les questions propres à l’anthropologie, le livre est d’un intérêt capital pour l’ensemble des sciences humaines et sociales, et pour l’histoire en particulier. La construction progressive de la problématique et le déploiement patient d’un argumentaire serré donnent à l’ouvrage une structure impressionnante. Wagner pose la double question de l’invent..
"The Apache Was my Reverse": Interview with Roy Wagner
No full textAgosto de 2011 foi um mês memorável para a antropologia brasileira. Seis diferentes universidades, espalhadas por todo o país, receberam o antropólogo norte-americano Roy Wagner. Passando por Belo Horizonte, Manaus, Florianópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília e São Paulo, Wagner realizou conferências sobre temas variados e participou de debates, alguns deles contando com a presença de índios brasileiros. Na UFAM, em Manaus, integrou uma mesa com três intelectuais indígenas: Bonifácio Baniwa, João Paulo Tukano e Higino Tuyuka, todos eles habitantes do alto Rio Negro. No Museu Nacional, no Rio de Janeiro, participou de um debate com Davi Kopenawa Yanomami e Maurício Ye’cuana, ambos da organização Hutukara (Roraima).1 Nas duas ocasiões, Wagner teve a oportunidade de discutir aspectos fundamentais das cosmologias indígenas ao abordar temas como mitologia e xamanismo, fazendo jus ao caráter dialógico que povoa seus escritos.Interview with Roy Wagner by Florencia Ferrari, Iracema Dulley, Jamille Pinheiro,Luísa Valentini, Renato Sztutman e Stelio Marrasin São Paulo. August 17,2011
An anthropology of the subject: holographic worldview in New Guinea and its meaning and significance for the world of anthropology
No full textAn Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in The Invention of Culture and Symbols That Stand for Themselves, respectively), now does the same for the "subject" and subjectivity. In studying the human subject and the way human culture mirrors itself, Wagner has redefined holography as "the exact equivalence, or comprehensive identity, of part and whole in any human contingency.
The Logic of Invention
No full textIn this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language?
Wagner explores what he calls “the reciprocity of perspectives” through a journey between Euro-American bodies of knowledge and his in-depth knowledge of Melanesian modes of thought. This logic grounds variants of the subject/object transformation, as Wagner works through examples such as the figure-ground reversal in Gestalt psychology, Lacan’s theory of the mirror-stage formation of the Ego, and even the self-recursive structure of the aphorism and the joke. Juxtaposing Wittgenstein’s and Leibniz’s philosophy with Melanesian social logic, Wagner explores the cosmological dimensions of the ways in which different societies develop models of self and the subject/object distinction
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