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1978 - Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth as Symbolic Obviation. Symbol, Myth and Ritual Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1972 - Habu: The Innovation of Meaning in Daribi Religion. Chicago: University o f Chicago Press. 1967 - The Curse of Souw: Principles of Daribi Clan Definition and Alliance in N ew Guinea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Articles and book chapters[edit]1977 - Scientific and Indigenous Papuan Conceptua lizations of the Innate , in Bayliss-Smith, Timothy e Feachem, Richard (ed.), Subs istence and Survival (New York: Academic Press) Works on Wagner[edit]Se??o Tem?tica: Semin?rio de Raposa, pensando com Roy Wagne r. Ilha Revista de Antropologia. 12(1): 1-160. "Reinventing the Invention of Culture" in Social Analysis. The International Jou rnal of Cultural and Social Practice. Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring 2002. Edited by Dav id Murray and Joel Robbins "The Double-Bind in the Obviation: The Sufficiency of Daribi Women and Bateson's 'Schizophrenic Mother'" by Elizabeth Stassinos given as an AAA paper at the Geo rge W. Stocking Jr. Symposium December 2nd, 2009 Organized by Andrew and Harriet Lyons, Discussants Herb Lewis and Kathy Fine. (Originally titled: "Obviating Ro y Wagner: The Pidik of Science Fiction") John M. Ingham Simplicity and complexity in anthropology. On the Horizon 2007 Vo lume: 15 Issue: 1 Page: 7 - 14 "Roy Wagner: Symbolic Anthropology and the fate of the New Melanesian Ethnograph y." Session organizers: Sandra Bamford, Joel Robbins, Justin Shaffner and James Weiner. Conference for the European Society for Oceanists (Verona, 2008). External links[edit]Personal page at the University of Virginia An Anthropology of the Subject Roy Wagner interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 9th June 2008 (film)