{"product_id":"semiotics-of-peasants-in-transition-9780822328278","title":"Semiotics of Peasants in Transition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eCultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e I. The Dynamics of a Dialogic Relation between a Peasant Village and Its Ethnic Counterpart: A Semiotic Approach\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Prologue: “The Strange Intruder” (from Peirce): A Peasant Village and Its Many Others \u003cbr\u003e 1. A Glance at the Village and Its Sister Ethnic Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing \u003cbr\u003e II. Theoretical Issues and Terminology: From the Outer to the Inner Point of View \u003cbr\u003e 2. Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, Transnationalism: Issues of Terminology \u003cbr\u003e 3. Can We Find the Inner Point of View? Interpretative Anthropology, Performance Anthropology \u003cbr\u003e 4. Semiotics of Culture\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e III. The Village and the Slovene Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing: A Historical Perspective \u003cbr\u003e 5. Zerovnica: Its Past and the Question of the Future \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Story of the Ethnic Community in Cleveland \u003cbr\u003e IV. Semiotic Portraits \u003cbr\u003e 7. Semiotic Portraits in Cultural Context \u003cbr\u003e 8. Concluding Remarks \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406029168983,"sku":"9780822328278","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/semiotics-of-peasants-in-transition-9780822328278","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}