Coyote Anthropology Wagner Hardback John Wiley & Sons 9780803210820

Coyote AnthropologyAuthor(s): Roy Wagner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803210820, 978-0803210820\nSynopsis\nCoyote Anthropology shatters anthropology's vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaningin terms of what anthropology perceives, how it goes about representing its subjects, and how it understands and legitimizes itself. Of particular concern is that meaning is comprehended and created through a complex and continually unfolding process predicated on what is not therethe unspoken, the unheard, the unknownas much as on what is there. Such powerful absences, described by Wagner as \""anti-twins,\"" are crucial for the invention of cultures and any discipline that proposes to study [url] revealed th.