Self-modeling: the Place of the Invention
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https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2011.39651Keywords:
Figure-ground reversal, fractal, self-modeling, technology, strangeness.Abstract
In this text Roy Wagner explores the mathematic notion of self-modeling as a mechanism of obviation that operates in different ethnographic cases. The large scale comparative effort here presented is due to a refuse of an “appropriational anthropology”, in other words, the idea that the anthropologist should or could be responsible for modeling the proficiency of worldview and technologies in the populations-subject of the researches. This text is a translation of the fourth chapter of the unpublished book The place of Invention, presented in an open seminar at the University of São Paulo in August, 2011.Downloads
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2012-08-24
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Wagner, R. (2012). Self-modeling: the Place of the Invention. Revista De Antropologia, 54(2). https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2011.39651
