Roy Wagner

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Roy Wagner is affiliated with the following schools: Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, Harvard University

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Roy Wagner

Anthropology

#82

World Rank

#135

Historical Rank

#46

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

#34

World Rank

#47

Historical Rank

#20

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Roy Wagner was an American cultural anthropologist who specialized in symbolic anthropology. Background Wagner received a B.A. in Medieval History from Harvard University , and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago , where he studied under David M. Schneider. He taught at Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University before accepting the chairmanship of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he taught until his death. He resided in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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The Theater of Fact and Its Critics@@@Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1986) (1263)
The Invention of Culture (1975) (890)
Symbols that Stand for Themselves (1986) (212)
analogic kinship: a Daribi example (1977) (157)
Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion (1973) (73)
Figure-ground reversal among the Barok (2012) (63)
Lethal speech : Daribi myth as symbolic obviation (1978) (62)
An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and Its Meaning and Significance for the World of Anthropology (2001) (51)
The curse of Souw : principles of Daribi clan definition and alliance in New Guinea (1968) (41)
Asiwinarong: Ethos, Image, and Social Power Among the Usen Barok of New Ireland. (1987) (36)
RITUAL AS COMMUNICATION: Order, Meaning, and Secrecy in Melanesian Initiation Rites (1984) (35)
Incest and Identity: A Critique and Theory on the Subject of Exogamy and Incest Prohibition (1972) (31)
CHAPTER XIII – Scientific and Indigenous Papuan Conceptualizations of the Innate: A Semiotic Critique of the Ecological Perspective (1977) (28)
Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring (1989) (27)
‘Luck in the double focus’: ritualized hospitality in Melanesia (2012) (26)
Socio-Ecological Change Among the Fore of New Guinea [and Comments and Replies] (1972) (24)
Vújà De and the Quintessentialists’ Guild (2011) (16)
Ethnology: Do Kamo: Person and Myth in the Melanesian World. Maurice Leenhardt (1980) (14)
Our very own cargo cult (2000) (12)
Afterword: The Lottery of Babylon, or, the Logic of Happenstance in Melanesia and Beyond (2012) (12)
The chess of kinship and the kinship of chess (2011) (10)
Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring. (1991) (9)
The natures of numbers in and around Bombelli’s L’algebra (2010) (9)
Women Migrant Workers (2010) (8)
Rethinking failure in mathematics education: A historical appeal (2018) (8)
Language and Music (1984) (8)
Pigs, Proteins, and People‐Eaters (1971) (7)
Post-Structural Readings of a Logico-Mathematical Text (2008) (7)
Four. If you have the advertisement you don't need the product (1995) (7)
Mathematical Variables as Indigenous Concepts (2009) (7)
Facts force you to believe in them; perspectives encourage you to believe out of them. An introduction to Viveiros de Castro’s magisterial essay (2012) (6)
History of Science in South Asia (2014) (6)
Metaphors We Live By. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1982) (5)
Mark Johnson, The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. xxxviii + 233. (1990) (5)
For Some Histories of Greek Mathematics (2009) (5)
Speaking for others : Power and Identity as Factors in Daribi Mediumistic Hysteria (1977) (4)
On the Other Dialogue and/or Dialectics : Mark Taylor's "Paralectics" (1991) (4)
A Historically and Philosophically Informed Approach to Mathematical Metaphors (2013) (4)
Mathematical Marriages (2009) (3)
A pessoa fractal. WAGNER, Roy. “The Fractal Person”. In: Marilyn Strathern e Maurice Godelier (org.). Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 (2011) (3)
The reciprocity of perspectives (2018) (3)
3. Condensed Mapping: Myth and the Folding of Space / Space and the Folding of Myth (2000) (3)
The rising ground (2014) (2)
The Logic of Invention (2019) (2)
Television Productions: The Ascent of Man. 1975. Co‐produced by the BBC and Time‐Life Films, and prepared for national distribution by WGBH‐TV. Produced and directed by Adrian Malone (1977) (2)
Infinity Metaphors, Idealism, and the Applicability of Mathematics (2012) (2)
The Ends of Innocence: Conception and Seduction among the Daribi of Karimui and the Barok of New Ireland (2010) (2)
THE THEATER OF FACT AND ITS CRITICS (2016) (2)
For a thicker semiotic description of mathematical practice and structure (2010) (2)
MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION OF POLYGYNY RATES AMONG THE DARIBI OF KARIMUI PATROL POST, TERRITORY OF PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA (1972) (2)
Symbol as Sense: New Approaches to the Analysis of Meaning. MARY LECRON FOSTER and STANLEY H. BRANDES, eds (1982) (2)
The Occupation-Image: A Deleuzian Analysis of Videos from the Israeli Occupation of Palestine (2014) (2)
General and Theoretical: Homo Necans: Interpretationen altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen. WALTER BURKERT (1975) (1)
The jaguar and the priest : an ethnography of Tzeltal souls (2010) (1)
Fighting over Pigshit: A New Ireland Pragmatic (1995) (1)
Conatus mathematico-philosophicus (2020) (1)
General and Theoretical: Communication of Innovations: A Cross‐Cultural Approach. EVERETT M. ROGERS and F. FLOYD SHOEMAKER (1972) (1)
The Kriyākramakarī’s Integrative Approach to Mathematical Knowledge (2018) (1)
Cognitive stories and the image of mathematics (2018) (1)
Mathematical Abstraction as Unstable Translation Between Concrete Presentations (2019) (1)
Ibn al-Haytham’s Revision of the Euclidean Foundations of Mathematics (2017) (1)
Edith Turner: The Gender of Giftedness (2001) (1)
The Nexus Between Kinship and Ritual (2016) (1)
Contribution 1: (2019) (1)
Symbolism in Anthropology (2001) (1)
Mordekhai Finzi’s Translation of Maestro Dardi’s Italian Algebra (2013) (0)
Transcendentalising the state (2016) (0)
Jost Bürgi’s methods of calculating sines, and possible transmission from India (2019) (0)
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott (review) (2020) (0)
Malagan Labadama (A Tribute to BukBuk). 1982. A film by Chris Owen. (1983) (0)
Book ReviewsOrdaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations. By Mark Chaves. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. x+237. $29.95. (2000) (0)
Discussion: Commentary on Narayan, Brown, and Tedlock (1999) (0)
The Drum and the Mask: Time of the Tubuan. (2000) (0)
As Wide As The World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology by Michael Jackson (review) (2020) (0)
The Island of Menstruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea. IAN HOGBIN (1974) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World. James Clifford (1985) (0)
List of Illustrations and Tables (1986) (0)
Some Comments on the Iqwaye Mathematic (2020) (0)
One. Bakan Village (1986) (0)
Michael J. Harner. Cave and Cosmos: Shamanic Encounters with Another Reality. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2013. xv + 301 pp., notes, bibliography, index. (2015) (0)
The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies. D. K. Feil (1989) (0)
On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience. VICTOR TURNER. Edith L. B. Turner (1987) (0)
Does Mathematics Need Foundations? (2019) (0)
General, Applied and Theoretical: The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands. PAULA BROWN (1974) (0)
Mordekhai Finzi's translation of Maestro Dardi's Italian Algebra, a Partial Edition (2013) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Knowing the Gururumba. Philip L. Newman (1967) (0)
Interview on the Life and Work of Roy Wagner (2008) (0)
ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY: Government in Wanggulain. A. Ploeg (1970) (0)
Sexual and National Mobility-Visibility Regimes in Israel/Palestine, and How to Cross Through Them (2012) (0)
Two. The Barok World (1986) (0)
Mathematical knowledge and the interplay of practices, by José Ferreirós: Princeton University Press, 2016, 360pp, £37.95, ISBN 978-0-691-16751-0 (2017) (0)
The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory. By Matthew Handelman. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. Pp. 278. Paper $28.00. ISBN 978-0823283828. (2020) (0)
Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 1995 (1996) (0)
Five. A Tadak (1986) (0)
sss ABSTRACT This paper examines the interaction between Semiotic choices and the (2016) (0)
Four. The Clan: Exchange and Alliance (1986) (0)
Mathematical consensus: a research program (2022) (0)
Ethnology: The Rope of Moka: Big‐Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea. ANDREW STRATHERN (1972) (0)
DARIBI OF KARIMUI PATROL POST, TERRITORY OF PAPUA AND (2016) (0)
Seven. The Icon of Containment (1986) (0)
Mariana Castilo Deball & Roy Wagner : coyote anthropology : a conversation in words and drawings = Kojotenanthropologie : ein Gespräch in Worten und Zeichnungen (2011) (0)
Funeral Rites, Queer Politics (2007) (0)
The longhouse of language (1994) (0)
The natures of numbers in and around (2010) (0)
General/Theoretical: Between Belief and Transgression: Structuralist Essays in Religion, History, and Myth. Michel Izard and Pierre Smith (1983) (0)
Jost Bürgi’s methods of calculating sines, and possible transmission from India (2019) (0)
: Australia in New Guinea . L. P. Mair. ; Big-Men and Business: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands . Ben R. Finney. (1975) (0)
Eight. Asiwinarong: Preemptive Successorship (1986) (0)
Appendix: Reciprocity and the Orong (1986) (0)
Mathematical knowledge and the interplay of practices, by José Ferreirós (2017) (0)
A Note on Barok Phonology (1986) (0)
Cultural/Ethnology: Magicians of Manumanua: Living Myth in Kalauna (1985) (0)
Book Review:Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist David Lipset (1981) (0)
Book review of Leo Corry's "A Brief History of Numbers": Leo Corry, A Brief History of Numbers, Oxford University Press, 2015, 336 pp., ISBN 9780198702597 (2017) (0)
Global Climate Change Pilot Course Project (2011) (0)
Six. Pidik and Power (1986) (0)
Citizen Environmental Science in Support of Educatio (2016) (0)

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