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Signs and Society : Further Studies in Semiotic Anthropology /

Brilliantly articulating the potent intersections of semiotic and linguistic anthropology, Signs and Society demonstrates how a keen appreciation of signs helps us better understand human agency, meaning, and creativity. Inspired by the foundational contributions of C. S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Sau...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parmentier, Richard J., 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. Foundations of Peircean semiotics
  • 1. Semiotic anthropology
  • 2. Charles S. Peirce
  • 3. Representation, symbol, and semiosis : signs of a scholarly collaboration
  • 4. Peirce and Saussure on signs and ideas in language
  • 5. Troubles with trichotomies : reflections on the utility of Peirce's sign trichotomies for social analysis
  • 6. Semiotic degeneracy of social life : prolegomenon to a human science of semiosis
  • part II. Critical commentaries and reviews
  • 7. Representing semiotics in the new millennium
  • 8. The world has changed forever : semiotic reflections on the experience of sudden change
  • 9. Description and comparison of religion
  • 10. It's about time : on the semiotics of temporality
  • 11. Anthropological encounters of a semiotic kind
  • 12. Two Marxes : evolutionary and critical dimensions of Marxian social theory
  • part III. Comparative perspectives on semiosis
  • 13. Money walks, people talk : systemic and transactional dimensions of Palauan exchange
  • 14. Representing transcendence : the semiosis of real presence / with Massimo Leone
  • 15. The "savvy interpreter" : performance and interpretation in Pindar's victory odes / with Nancy Felson.