Roy Wagner

Roy Wagner

Roy Wagner is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in symbolic anthropology. He received a B.A. in Medieval History from Harvard University (1961), and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1966), where he studied under David M. Schneider. He conducted fieldwork among the Daribi of Karimui, in the Simbu Province of Papua New Guinea, as well as the Usen Barok of New Ireland. Wagner taught at Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University before accepting the chairmanship of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he currently teaches. He resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Wagner has been probably one of the world's most influential anthropologist. His book "The Invention of Culture" (1975; 1981) is considered a classic of ethnography and theory, and has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese and Italian. His work contains a very peculiar form of Hegelian-inspired anthropology. His concepts of symbolic obviation, figure-ground reversal, analogic kinship, holography and fractality of personhood have been critical in the development of anthropological theory in the last decades. Anthropologists influenced by Wagner include Marilyn Strathern, Jadran Mimica, James Weiner, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.

Major publications

* 2001 - An Anthropology of the Subject. University of California Press.
* 1986 - Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
* 1986 - Symbols That Stand for Themselves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* 1981 - The Invention of Culture. University of Chicago Press.
* 1978 - Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth as Symbolic Obviation. Symbol, Myth and Ritual Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
* 1972 - Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* 1967 - The Curse of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance in New Guinea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Works on Wagner

* John M. Ingham "Simplicity and complexity in anthropology". On the Horizon 2007 Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Page: 7 - 14
* "Reinventing the Invention of Culture" in "Social Analysis". The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice. Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring 2002. Edited by David Murray and Joel Robbins
* Stassinos, Elizabeth "The art of losing one's own culture isn't hard to master, it's obviation: Roy Wagner, Gregory Bateson, and the art of science writ large. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice Vol 46, No. 1 Spring 2002. Edited by David Murray and Joel Robbins.

External links

* [http://www.virginia.edu/anthropology/faculty/wagner.html Personal page] at the University of Virginia
* [http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9064.html An Anthropology of the Subject]


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