Description
Book SynopsisOffers a new way of doing ethnography, based on an analysis of interaction between immigrants from a small village in Slovenia to the US and the culture they left.
Trade Review“This is an important ethnography, very different from the usual run-of-the-mill village ethnographies of ex-Yugoslavia, and the methodology followed is a useful and potentially important addition to the literature on transnationalism.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of
Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-StateTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
I. The Dynamics of a Dialogic Relation between a Peasant Village and Its Ethnic Counterpart: A Semiotic Approach
Prologue: “The Strange Intruder” (from Peirce): A Peasant Village and Its Many Others
1. A Glance at the Village and Its Sister Ethnic Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing
II. Theoretical Issues and Terminology: From the Outer to the Inner Point of View
2. Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, Transnationalism: Issues of Terminology
3. Can We Find the Inner Point of View? Interpretative Anthropology, Performance Anthropology
4. Semiotics of Culture
III. The Village and the Slovene Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing: A Historical Perspective
5. Zerovnica: Its Past and the Question of the Future
6. The Story of the Ethnic Community in Cleveland
IV. Semiotic Portraits
7. Semiotic Portraits in Cultural Context
8. Concluding Remarks
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
