Roy Wagner

Roy Wagner (1938) is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in symbolic anthropology.

Books

• The Curse of Souw. Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance in New Guinea, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

• The Invention of Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975, 1981.
  • A invenção da Cultura, Sao Paolo: Cosac & Naify, 2010, PDF. (Portuguese)

• Habu. The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

• Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth As Symbolic Obviation, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978.

• Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power Among the Usen Barok of New Ireland, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986.

• Symbols That Stand for Themselves, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

• An Anthropology of the Subject Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

• Coyote Anthropology, Lincoln [Neb.]: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Wagner
• http://anthropology.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/rw