{"product_id":"signs-and-society-further-studies-in-semiotic-anthropology-hardback-9780253024817","title":"Signs and Society; Further Studies in Semiotic Anthropology (Hardback) 9780253024817","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSigns and Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFurther Studies in Semiotic Anthropology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard J. Parmentier (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253024817\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.581 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly articulating the potent intersections of semiotic and linguistic anthropology, \u003ci\u003eSigns and Society\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Saussure, and drawing upon key insights from neighboring scholarly fields, noted anthropologist Richard J. Parmentier develops an array of innovative conceptual tools for ethnographic, historical, and literary research. His 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Foundations of Peircean Semiotics\u003cbr\u003e 1. Semiotic Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e 2. Charles S. Peirce\u003cbr\u003e 3. Representation, Symbol, and Semiosis: Signs of a Scholarly Collaboration\u003cbr\u003e 4. Peirce and Saussure on Signs and Ideas in Language\u003cbr\u003e 5. Troubles with Trichotomies: Reflections on the Utility of Peirce's Sign Trichotomies for Social Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 6. Semiotic Degeneracy of Social Life: Prolegomenon to a Human Science of Semiosis\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Critical Commentaries and Reviews\u003cbr\u003e 7. Representing Semiotics in the New Millennium\u003cbr\u003e 8. The World Has Changed Forever: Semiotic Reflections on the Experience of Sudden Change\u003cbr\u003e 9. Description and Comparison of Religion\u003cbr\u003e 10. It's About Time: On the Semiotics of Temporality\u003cbr\u003e 11. Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind\u003cbr\u003e 12. Two Marxes: Evolutionary and Critical Dimensions of Marxian Social Theory\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Comparative Perspectives on Semiosis\u003cbr\u003e 13. Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactions Dimensions of Palauan Exchange\u003cbr\u003e 14. Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence \/ With Massimo Leone\u003cbr\u003e 15. The 'Savvy Interpreter': Performance and Interpretation in Pindar's Victory Odes \/ With Nancy Felson\u003cbr\u003e List of References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525043941656,"sku":"9780253024817","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/signs-and-society-further-studies-in-semiotic-anthropology-hardback-9780253024817","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}