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BL
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997170
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b751540
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| Main Entry
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Wagner, Roy,1938-
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| Title & Author
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Symbols that stand for themselves /\ Roy Wagner.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1986.
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xii, 150 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm
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0226869288
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: 0226869296
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: 9780226869285
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: 9780226869292
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| Notes
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Sequel to: The invention of culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-145) and index.
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| Contents
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Too definite for words -- Metaphor spread out: the holography of meaning -- Death on the skin: mortality and figure-ground reversal -- Epoch: real and unreal time -- The Western core symbol -- Conclusion: Third-order trope and the human condition.
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| Abstract
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This important new work by Roy Wagner is about the autonomy of symbols and their role in creating culture. Its argument, anticipated in the author's previous book, The Invention of Culture, is at once symbolic, philosophical, and evolutionary: meaning is a form of perception to which human beings are physically and mentally adapted. Using examples from his many years of research among the Daribi people of New Guinea as well as from Western culture, Wagner approaches the question of the creation of meaning by examining the nonreferential qualities of symbols �such as their aesthetic and formal properties �that enable symbols to stand for themselves.--
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Culture-- Semiotic models.
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Daribi (Papua New Guinean people)
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Meaning (Psychology)
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Symbolism.
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Culture - Modèles sémiotiques.
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Daribi (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
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Signification (Psychologie)
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Symbolisme.
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Culture-- Modèles sémiotiques.
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Daribi (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
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Signification (Psychologie)
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Symbolisme.
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Bedeutung
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Culture-- Semiotic models.
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Culture.
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Daribi (Papua New Guinean people)
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Daribi (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
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Kultursemiotik
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Meaning (Psychology)
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Metapher
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Sémiotique et culture.
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Signification (psychologie)
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Symbol
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Symbolik
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Symbolism.
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Symbolisme.
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Metapher.
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Symbol.
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Cultuur.
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Semiotiek.
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Symboliek.
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| Dewey Classification
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306
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| LC Classification
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GN452.5.W33 1986
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| NLM classification
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73.62bcl
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CC 4800rvk
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EC 3760rvk
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ER 730rvk
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LC 91000rvk
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| Added Entry
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Wagner, Roy,1938-
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