Automodelagem: O lugar da invenção

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 This text is a translation of the fourth chapter of the unpublished book The place of Invention, presented in an open seminar at the University of São Paulo in August, 2011.