Semiotics of Peasants in Transition : Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America /

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Offers a new way of doing ethnography, based on an analysis of interaction between immigrants from a small village in Slovenia to the U.S. and the culture they left.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Portis-Winner, Irene, 1923- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slovenian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Culture > Semiotic models.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Culture > Modeles semiotiques.
Americains d'origine slovene > Identite ethnique.
Ethnicite > Slovenie.
Ethnicity > Slovenia.
Slovenia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Dynamics of a Dialogic Relation between a Peasant Village and Its Ethnic Counterpart: A Semiotic Approach. Prologue, "The Strange Intruder" (from Peirce): A Peasant Village and Its Many Others. A Glance at the Village and Its Sister Ethnic Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing
  • 2. Theoretical Issues and Terminology: From the Outer to the Inner Point of View. Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, Transnationalism: Issues of Terminology. Can We Find the Inner Point of View? Interpretative Anthropology, Performance Anthropology. Semiotics of Culture
  • 3. The Village and the Slovene Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing: A Historical Perspective. Zerovnica: Its Past and the Question of the Future. The Story of the Ethnic Community in Cleveland
  • 4. Semiotic Portraits. Semiotic Portraits in Cultural Context.

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