Rethinking Milton Singer’s semiotic anthropology: A reconnaissance
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Robert Boroch
Abstract
The article discusses the possibility of using the cognitive tools of semiotics (theory of signs) for theoretical considerations of social structures from the anthropological perspective. In the literature on the subject, this approach is defined as semiotic anthropology, a term coined by Milton Singer. The article emphasizes the possibilities, untapped within Singer’s work, of further epistemological research within the scope of the “cultural theory of signs” and reduction of the paradigms of research on culture from philosophical and philological as well as anthropological and ethnographic paradigms to a semiotic paradigm, enabling the analysis of meanings of cultural messages (as broadly understood), from architecture and painting and even eating habits (e.g., cooking) to systems of values and literature. In this sense, semiotic anthropology represents the position of “mild holism” and becomes a tool supporting the exploration of culture.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Transmedia branding: Brands, narrative worlds, and the mcwhopper peace agreement
- Translating iconicities of classical Chinese poetry
- Lexical trends in Facebook and Twitter texts of selected Nigerian Pentecostal churches: A stylistic inquiry
- Approach to the new videographies analysis: Case study of immigrant representations in the Social Innovation Laboratory videos (SIL UBIQA)
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- Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture or Laclau’s political ontology?
- Peirce’s resonances on Deleuze’s concept of sign: Triadic relations, habit and relation as semiotic features
- Iconically modeling a demolition process in the photobook Palast Der Republik
- Rethinking Milton Singer’s semiotic anthropology: A reconnaissance
- Representing indigenous lifeways and beliefs in U.S.-Mexico border indigenous activist discourse
- Legislative exploration of domestic violence in the People’s Republic of China: A sociosemiotic perspective
- A medium-centered model of communication
- “Language” and “discourse”: Two perspectives on linguistic philosophy
- Lotman, Leibniz, and the semiospheric monad: Lost pages from the archives
- Review Article
- Embodied X Figures and Forms of Thought
