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<\/a> Anthropology mourns one of its greatest practitioners, Roy Wagner, who died on 10 September 2018. To honour Wagner and his intellectually inexhaustible work, we are re-issuing for free access a Special Issue of\u00a0Social Analysis\u00a0<\/em>that was first published in 2002. The eponymous \u201cReinventing\u00a0The Invention of Culture<\/em>\u201d, edited by David Murray and Joel Robbins, sought to assess the influence of Wagner\u2019s renown book, following the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
We re-issue this Special Issue to recognize Roy Wagner\u2019s contributions to the field of anthropology. The texts it assembles were written by an array of authors who were in different ways touched by this brilliance and seek to convey it by transposing Wagner\u2019s thinking in their own fields of\u00a0interest. The collection adds to a steadily growing body of work that seeks to extend Wagner\u2019s astounding insights in ways he would tag as \u2018metaphoric\u2019 (1981). To aid readers who may be inspired to navigate this literature, we have included below a bibliography of Wagner\u2019s major works, as well as a list of works by others in which his vast and influential ideas can be experienced.<\/p>\n
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Social Analysis <\/em>(Vol. 46, Issue 1)<\/a> <\/strong><\/h3>\nSpecial Section<\/strong><\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Introduction: Reinventing the Invention of Culture<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Joel Robbins\u00a0and\u00a0David A. B. Murray<\/p>\nOn the Critical Uses of Difference: The Uninvited Guest and “The Invention of Culture”<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Joel Robbins<\/p>\nThe Gift of Shame: The Invention of Postcolonial Society<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Karen Sykes<\/p>\nReinventing “The Invention of Culture”<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by\u00a0Richard Handler<\/p>\nOn Being ‘Natural’ in the Rainforest Marketplace:\u00a0Science, Capitalism and the Commodification of Biodiversity<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Sandra Bamford<\/p>\nRecursive Tricks and Holographic Infinities:\u00a0“The Invention of Culture”<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and After by\u00a0Doug Dalton<\/p>\nThe Art of Losing One’s Own Culture Isn’t Hard to Master, It’s Obviation:\u00a0Roy Wagner, Gregory Bateson, and the Art of Science Writ Large<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Elizabeth Stassinos<\/p>\n“The Invention of Culture,” Magalim, and the Holy Spirit<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Dan Jorgensen<\/p>\nQueering the Culture Cult<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by David A. B. Murray<\/p>\nAfterword<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Marilyn Strathern<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nSelected works by Roy Wagner:<\/strong><\/h3>\nIn Press \u2013 The reciprocity of perspectives. Social Anthropology<\/em> 26(4)<\/p>\nForthcoming. The Logic of Invention<\/em><\/p>\n2012 \u2013 \u201cLuck in the double focus\u201d: ritualized hospitality in Melanesia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/em> 18: 161-74.<\/p>\n2010 \u2013 Coyote Anthropology<\/em>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press<\/p>\n2001 – An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n2000 – The reprojective basis of human society. Soumen Antropologi, Journal of the Finish Anthropological Society<\/em> 25(1): 4-14<\/p>\n1991 \u2013 The fractal person. In M. Godelier and M. Strathern (eds.) Big Men and Great Men<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n1989 (edited with Fred Damon). Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula<\/em>. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press.<\/p>\n1986 – Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n1986 – Symbols That Stand for Themselves<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n1984 – Ritual as communication: Order, meaning, and secrecy in Melanesian initiation rites. Annual Review of Anthropology<\/em> 13: 143\u201355.<\/p>\n1978 – Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth as Symbolic Obviation<\/em>. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.<\/p>\n1977 \u2013 Analogic kinship: A Daribi example. American Ethnologist<\/em> 4(4): 623-642<\/p>\n1975\/1981 – The Invention of Culture. University of Chicago Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n1972 – Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n1967 – The Course of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Selected works influenced by Roy Wagner or, in some cases, about him:<\/strong><\/h3>\nCors\u00edn-Jimenez, Alberto. 2013. An anthropological trompe l\u2019oeil for a common world<\/em>. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.<\/p>\nCrook, Tony. 2007.\u00a0 Exchanging Skin: Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press<\/p>\nDulley, Iracema H. 2018. Difference and Ethnography in Roy Wagner<\/em>. London: Routledge<\/p>\nGoldman, Marcio. 2018. The end of anthropology. OAC Press<\/em>. Available online at http:\/\/openanthcoop.net\/press\/2018\/01\/15\/the-end-of-anthropology\/<\/a><\/p>\nHolbraad, Martin. 2012. Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\nHolbraad, Martin, and Morten A. Pedersen. 2017. The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<\/p>\nJohnson Clay, Brenda. 1975. Pinikindu: Maternal Nurture, Paternal Substance<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press<\/p>\nKeisalo, Marianna. 2018. Perspectives of (and on) a comedic self: A semiotics of subjectivity in stand-up comedy. Social Analysis<\/em>\u00a062(1): 116-135.<\/p>\nKelly Luciani, Jose Antonio. 2011.\u00a0State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations: A Symmetrical Ethnography<\/em>. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.<\/p>\n_____________________ . 2016.\u00a0About Anti-Mestizaje<\/em>. Desterro, Florian\u00f3polis: Cultura e Barb\u00e1rie.\u00a0Available online at\u00a0http:\/\/culturaebarbarie.org\/novo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/antimestizaje.pdf<\/a><\/p>\nMimica, Jadran. 1988. Intimations of Infinity:<\/em> The cultural meanings of the Iqwawe Counting Sysytems and Number<\/em>. London: Berg<\/p>\nMosko, Mark S. and Frederick H. Damon 2005. On the Order of Chaos. Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos<\/em>. Oxford: Berghahn Books.<\/p>\nMoutu, Andrew. 2013. Names are Thicker than Blood: Kinship and Ownership amongst the Iatmul<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\nMurray, David, and Joel Robbins. 2002. \u201cReinventing The Invention of Culture<\/em>\u201d. Special Section of Social Analysis<\/em> 46(1): 1-91.<\/p>\nNielsen, Morten. 2013. \u2018Analogic Asphalt: Suspended value conversations among young road workers in Southern Mozambique\u2019. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory<\/em> 3 (2): 79-96.<\/p>\nPitarch, Pedro, and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kelly. In press. The Cultures of Invention: The Anthropology of Roy Wagner in the Americas<\/em>. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing<\/p>\nStrathern, Marilyn. 1980. \u2018No Nature, No Culture: The Hagen Case\u2019, in C. MacCormack and M. Strathern (ed.), Nature, Culture and Gender<\/em>, pp.174\u2013222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n_____________. 1988. The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\nViveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2014. Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology<\/em>. Translated and edited by Peter Skafish. Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing.<\/p>\nWeiner, James F. 1988. The Heart of the Pear Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality<\/em>. Berkeley and London: University of California Press.<\/p>\n_____________. 1995. The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond<\/em>. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anthropology mourns one of its greatest practitioners, Roy Wagner, who died on 10 September 2018. To honour Wagner and his intellectually inexhaustible work, we are re-issuing for free access a Special Issue of\u00a0Social Analysis\u00a0that was first published in 2002. The eponymous \u201cReinventing\u00a0The Invention of Culture\u201d, edited by David Murray and Joel Robbins, sought to… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,222],"tags":[107,311,550,920,196,921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11787"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11894,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions\/11894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Introduction: Reinventing the Invention of Culture<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Joel Robbins\u00a0and\u00a0David A. B. Murray<\/p>\n On the Critical Uses of Difference: The Uninvited Guest and “The Invention of Culture”<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Joel Robbins<\/p>\n The Gift of Shame: The Invention of Postcolonial Society<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Karen Sykes<\/p>\n Reinventing “The Invention of Culture”<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by\u00a0Richard Handler<\/p>\n On Being ‘Natural’ in the Rainforest Marketplace:\u00a0Science, Capitalism and the Commodification of Biodiversity<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Sandra Bamford<\/p>\n Recursive Tricks and Holographic Infinities:\u00a0“The Invention of Culture”<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and After by\u00a0Doug Dalton<\/p>\n The Art of Losing One’s Own Culture Isn’t Hard to Master, It’s Obviation:\u00a0Roy Wagner, Gregory Bateson, and the Art of Science Writ Large<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Elizabeth Stassinos<\/p>\n “The Invention of Culture,” Magalim, and the Holy Spirit<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Dan Jorgensen<\/p>\n Queering the Culture Cult<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by David A. B. Murray<\/p>\n Afterword<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Marilyn Strathern<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Press \u2013 The reciprocity of perspectives. Social Anthropology<\/em> 26(4)<\/p>\n Forthcoming. The Logic of Invention<\/em><\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 \u201cLuck in the double focus\u201d: ritualized hospitality in Melanesia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/em> 18: 161-74.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 Coyote Anthropology<\/em>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press<\/p>\n 2001 – An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n 2000 – The reprojective basis of human society. Soumen Antropologi, Journal of the Finish Anthropological Society<\/em> 25(1): 4-14<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 The fractal person. In M. Godelier and M. Strathern (eds.) Big Men and Great Men<\/em> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n 1989 (edited with Fred Damon). Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula<\/em>. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press.<\/p>\n 1986 – Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n 1986 – Symbols That Stand for Themselves<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n 1984 – Ritual as communication: Order, meaning, and secrecy in Melanesian initiation rites. Annual Review of Anthropology<\/em> 13: 143\u201355.<\/p>\n 1978 – Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth as Symbolic Obviation<\/em>. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Analogic kinship: A Daribi example. American Ethnologist<\/em> 4(4): 623-642<\/p>\n 1975\/1981 – The Invention of Culture. University of Chicago Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1972 – Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n 1967 – The Course of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cors\u00edn-Jimenez, Alberto. 2013. An anthropological trompe l\u2019oeil for a common world<\/em>. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.<\/p>\n Crook, Tony. 2007.\u00a0 Exchanging Skin: Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press<\/p>\n Dulley, Iracema H. 2018. Difference and Ethnography in Roy Wagner<\/em>. London: Routledge<\/p>\n Goldman, Marcio. 2018. The end of anthropology. OAC Press<\/em>. Available online at http:\/\/openanthcoop.net\/press\/2018\/01\/15\/the-end-of-anthropology\/<\/a><\/p>\n Holbraad, Martin. 2012. Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n Holbraad, Martin, and Morten A. Pedersen. 2017. The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n Johnson Clay, Brenda. 1975. Pinikindu: Maternal Nurture, Paternal Substance<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press<\/p>\n Keisalo, Marianna. 2018. Perspectives of (and on) a comedic self: A semiotics of subjectivity in stand-up comedy. Social Analysis<\/em>\u00a062(1): 116-135.<\/p>\n Kelly Luciani, Jose Antonio. 2011.\u00a0State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations: A Symmetrical Ethnography<\/em>. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.<\/p>\n _____________________ . 2016.\u00a0About Anti-Mestizaje<\/em>. Desterro, Florian\u00f3polis: Cultura e Barb\u00e1rie.\u00a0Available online at\u00a0http:\/\/culturaebarbarie.org\/novo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/antimestizaje.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n Mimica, Jadran. 1988. Intimations of Infinity:<\/em> The cultural meanings of the Iqwawe Counting Sysytems and Number<\/em>. London: Berg<\/p>\n Mosko, Mark S. and Frederick H. Damon 2005. On the Order of Chaos. Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos<\/em>. Oxford: Berghahn Books.<\/p>\n Moutu, Andrew. 2013. Names are Thicker than Blood: Kinship and Ownership amongst the Iatmul<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n Murray, David, and Joel Robbins. 2002. \u201cReinventing The Invention of Culture<\/em>\u201d. Special Section of Social Analysis<\/em> 46(1): 1-91.<\/p>\n Nielsen, Morten. 2013. \u2018Analogic Asphalt: Suspended value conversations among young road workers in Southern Mozambique\u2019. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory<\/em> 3 (2): 79-96.<\/p>\n Pitarch, Pedro, and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kelly. In press. The Cultures of Invention: The Anthropology of Roy Wagner in the Americas<\/em>. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing<\/p>\n Strathern, Marilyn. 1980. \u2018No Nature, No Culture: The Hagen Case\u2019, in C. MacCormack and M. Strathern (ed.), Nature, Culture and Gender<\/em>, pp.174\u2013222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n _____________. 1988. The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2014. Cannibal Metaphysics: For a Post-Structural Anthropology<\/em>. Translated and edited by Peter Skafish. Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing.<\/p>\n Weiner, James F. 1988. The Heart of the Pear Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality<\/em>. Berkeley and London: University of California Press.<\/p>\n _____________. 1995. The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond<\/em>. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anthropology mourns one of its greatest practitioners, Roy Wagner, who died on 10 September 2018. To honour Wagner and his intellectually inexhaustible work, we are re-issuing for free access a Special Issue of\u00a0Social Analysis\u00a0that was first published in 2002. The eponymous \u201cReinventing\u00a0The Invention of Culture\u201d, edited by David Murray and Joel Robbins, sought to… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,222],"tags":[107,311,550,920,196,921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11787"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11894,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions\/11894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSelected works by Roy Wagner:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Selected works influenced by Roy Wagner or, in some cases, about him:<\/strong><\/h3>\n