Richard J. Parmentier

Signs and Society (eBook, ePUB)

Further Studies in Semiotic Anthropology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 281
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253025142
• Artikelnr.: 63343850

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Parmentier is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau; Signs in Society: Studies in Semiotic Anthropology; and The Pragmatic Semiotics of Cultures. With Elizabeth Mertz, he coedited Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives. He is Editor-in-Chief of Signs and Society; Affiliated Researcher, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Korea); and Foreign Member, Doctoral Program in Humanities, University of Turin (Italy).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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 Transactions 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
List of References
Index