Signs And Society
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Signs And Society
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Author : Richard J. Parmentier
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-03
Signs And Society written by Richard J. Parmentier and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-03 with Social Science categories.
A major voice in contemporary semiotic theory offers a new perspective on potent intersections of semiotic and linguistic anthropology. In Signs and Society, noted anthropologist Richard J. Parmentier demonstrates how an appreciation of signs helps us better understand human agency, meaning, and creativity. Inspired by the foundational work of C. S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, and drawing upon key insights from neighboring scholarly fields, Parmentier develops an array of innovative conceptual tools for ethnographic, historical, and literary research. Parmentier’s concepts of “transactional value,” “metapragmatic interpretant,” and “circle of semiosis,” for example, illuminate the foundations and effects of such diverse cultural forms and practices as economic exchanges on the Pacific island of Palau, Pindar’s Victory Odes in ancient Greece, and material representations of transcendence in ancient Egypt and medieval Christianity. Other studies complicate the separation of emic and etic analytical models for such cultural domains as religion, economic value, and semiotic ideology. Provocative and absorbing, these fifteen pioneering essays blaze a trail into anthropology’s future while remaining firmly rooted in its celebrated past.
Signs And Society
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Author : P.-J. Ezeh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Signs And Society written by P.-J. Ezeh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Body marking categories.
A Society Of Signs
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Author : David Harris
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11
A Society Of Signs written by David Harris and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with Psychology categories.
A Society of Signs is an introduction to current debates around the themes of culture, identity and lifestyle, debates which often begin with the assumption that we live in a 'society of signs'.
Signs Of Recognition
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Author : Webb Keane
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-09-01
Signs Of Recognition written by Webb Keane and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-01 with Social Science categories.
Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indonesian island of Sumba. Weaving together sharply observed narrative, close analysis of poetic speech and valuable objects, and far-reaching theoretical discussion, Signs of Recognition explores the risks endemic in representational practices. An awareness of risk is embedded in the very forms of ritual speech and exchange. The possibilities for failure and slippage reveal people's mutual vulnerabilities and give words and things part of their power. Keane shows how the dilemmas posed by the effort to use and control language and objects are implicated with general problems of power, authority, and agency. He persuades us to look differently at ideas of voice and value. Integrating the analysis of words and things, this book contributes to a wide range of fields, including linguistic anthropology, cultural studies, social theory, and the studies of material culture, art, and political economy.
Semiotic Mediation
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Author : Elizabeth Mertz
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Semiotic Mediation written by Elizabeth Mertz and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Approx.394 pages
Signs
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Signs written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Women categories.
Writings On The General Theory Of Signs
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Author : Charles William Morris
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1971
Writings On The General Theory Of Signs written by Charles William Morris and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Business & Economics categories.
Economies Of Signs And Space
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Author : Professor Scott M Lash
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1993-12-09
Economies Of Signs And Space written by Professor Scott M Lash and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-12-09 with Social Science categories.
This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. The consequence is not only the much-vaunted postmodern condition' but also a growth in reflexivity. In exploring this new reflexive world, the authors argue that today's economies are increasingly ones of signs - information, symbols, images, desire - and of space, where both signs and social subjects - refugees, financiers, tourists and "fl[ci]aneurs " - are mobile over ever greater distances at ever greater speeds.
Signs In The Dust
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Author : Nathan Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Signs In The Dust written by Nathan Lyons and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Religion categories.
Modern thought is characterized by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature. Signs in the Dust uses medieval semiotics to develop a new theory of nature and culture that resists this familiar picture of things. Through readings of Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, and John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas), it offers a semiotic analysis of human culture in both its anthropological breadth as an enterprise of creaturely sign-making, and its theological height as a finite participation in the Trinity, which can be understood as an absolute 'cultural nature'. Signs in the Dust then extends this account of human culture backwards into the natural depth of biological and physical nature. It puts the biosemiotics of its medieval sources, along with Félix Ravaisson's philosophy of habit, into dialogue with the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis that is emerging in contemporary biology, to show how all living things participate in semiosis, so that that a cultural dimension is present through the whole order of nature and the whole of natural history. It also retrieves Aquinas' doctrine of intentions in the medium to show how signification can be attributed in a diminished way to even inanimate nature, with the ontological implication that being as such should be reconceived in semiotic terms. The phenomena of human culture are therefore to be understood not as breaks with a meaningless nature, but instead as heightenings and deepenings of natural movements of meaning that long precede and far exceed us. Against the modern divorce of nature and culture, Signs in the Dust argues that culture is natural and nature is cultural, through and through.
Changing Signs Of Truth
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Author : Crystal L. Downing
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Changing Signs Of Truth written by Crystal L. Downing and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Religion categories.
Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.