The Socialness of Things: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects

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The Socialness of Things

Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects

Edited by: Stephen H. Riggins

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1994

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Volume 115 | Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Introduction Stephen Harold Riggins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I The dialogic object: Artifacts as agents and processes
The genuine article Mary Douglas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Glorious obsessions, passionate lovers, and hidden treasures: Collecting, metaphor, and the Romantic ethic Brenda Danet and Tamar Katriel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Objects and their maker: Bricolage of the self Vera Mark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Fieldwork in the living room: An autoethnographic essay Stephen Harold Riggins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Bridewealth revisited George Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Melanesian artifacts as cultural markers: A micro-anthropological study Nick Stanley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Part II The built environment and the political ecology of artifacts
The logic of the mall Rob Shields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
The ideological commodification of culture: Architectural heritage and domestic tourism in Japan Adolf Ehrentraut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
“Take home Canada”: Representations of aboriginal peoples as tourist souvenirs Valda Blundell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Objects, texts, and practices: The refrigerator in consumer discourses between the wars Peter R. Grahame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
Communicating democracy: Or shine, perishing republic Eugene Halton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
Part III Clothing and adornment: The skin of culture
Are artifacts texts? Lithuanian woven sashes as social and cosmic transactions Joan M. Vastokas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
Feathers and fringes: A semiotic approach to powwow dancers’ regalia Michèle Kérisit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
Navajo weaving as sacred metaphor Kathy M’Closkey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
What is a t-shirt? Codes, chronotypes, and everyday objects Betsy Cullum-Swan and Peter K. Manning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
Interpreted, circulating, interpreting: The three dimensions of the clothing object Peter Corrigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
Psychoanalytic jewels: The domestic drama of Dora and Freud John O’Neill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475

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October 25, 2012

eBook ISBN:

9783110882469

Hardcover published on:

September 1, 1994

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110141337

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

482

Illustrations:

49

Tables:

6

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110882469

eBook ISBN: 9783110882469

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110141337

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Sachkultur; Kultursemiotik; Kongress; Toronto

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