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Acknowledgments
Part I: Foundations of Peircean Semiotics
1. Semiotic Anthropology
2. Charles S. Peirce
3. Representation, Symbol, and Semiosis: Signs of a Scholarly Collaboration
4. Peirce and Saussure on Signs and Ideas in Language
5. Troubles with Trichotomies: Reflections on the Utility of Peirce's Sign Trichotomies for Social Analysis
6. Semiotic Degeneracy of Social Life: Prolegomenon to a Human Science of Semiosis
Part II: Critical Commentaries and Reviews
7. Representing Semiotics in the New Millennium
8. The World Has Changed Forever: Semiotic Reflections on the Experience of Sudden Change
9. Description and Comparison of Religion
10. It's About Time: On the Semiotics of Temporality
11. Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind
12. Two Marxes: Evolutionary and Critical Dimensions of Marxian Social Theory
Part III: Comparative Perspectives on Semiosis
13. Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactions Dimensions of Palauan Exchange
14. Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence / With Massimo Leone
15. The 'Savvy Interpreter': Performance and Interpretation in Pindar's Victory Odes / With Nancy Felson
List of References
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/10/2016
      ISBN13: 9780253024961, 978-0253024961
      ISBN10: 025302496X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Part I: Foundations of Peircean Semiotics
      1. Semiotic Anthropology
      2. Charles S. Peirce
      3. Representation, Symbol, and Semiosis: Signs of a Scholarly Collaboration
      4. Peirce and Saussure on Signs and Ideas in Language
      5. Troubles with Trichotomies: Reflections on the Utility of Peirce's Sign Trichotomies for Social Analysis
      6. Semiotic Degeneracy of Social Life: Prolegomenon to a Human Science of Semiosis
      Part II: Critical Commentaries and Reviews
      7. Representing Semiotics in the New Millennium
      8. The World Has Changed Forever: Semiotic Reflections on the Experience of Sudden Change
      9. Description and Comparison of Religion
      10. It's About Time: On the Semiotics of Temporality
      11. Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind
      12. Two Marxes: Evolutionary and Critical Dimensions of Marxian Social Theory
      Part III: Comparative Perspectives on Semiosis
      13. Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactions Dimensions of Palauan Exchange
      14. Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence / With Massimo Leone
      15. The 'Savvy Interpreter': Performance and Interpretation in Pindar's Victory Odes / With Nancy Felson
      List of References
      Index

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