Feathers and fringes: A semiotic approach to powwow dancers’ regalia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I The dialogic object: Artifacts as agents and processes
5. The genuine article 9
6. Glorious obsessions, passionate lovers, and hidden treasures: Collecting, metaphor, and the Romantic ethic 23
7. Objects and their maker: Bricolage of the self 63
8. Fieldwork in the living room: An autoethnographic essay 101
9. Bridewealth revisited 149
10. Melanesian artifacts as cultural markers: A micro-anthropological study 173
11. Part II The built environment and the political ecology of artifacts
12. The logic of the mall 203
13. The ideological commodification of culture: Architectural heritage and domestic tourism in Japan 231
14. “Take home Canada”: Representations of aboriginal peoples as tourist souvenirs 251
15. Objects, texts, and practices: The refrigerator in consumer discourses between the wars 285
16. Communicating democracy: Or shine, perishing republic 309
17. Part III Clothing and adornment: The skin of culture
18. Are artifacts texts? Lithuanian woven sashes as social and cosmic transactions 337
19. Feathers and fringes: A semiotic approach to powwow dancers’ regalia 363
20. Navajo weaving as sacred metaphor 393
21. What is a t-shirt? Codes, chronotypes, and everyday objects 415
22. Interpreted, circulating, interpreting: The three dimensions of the clothing object 435
23. Psychoanalytic jewels: The domestic drama of Dora and Freud 451
24. Subject Index 471
25. Name Index 475