The Socialness of Things : : Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects / / ed. by Stephen H. Riggins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Blundell, Valda,; Corrigan, Peter,; Cullum-Swan, Betsy,; Danet, Brenda,; Douglas, Mary,; Ehrentraut, Adolf,; Grahame, Peter R.,; Halton, Eugene,; Katriel, Tamar,; Kérisit, Michèle,; Manning, Peter K.,; Mark, Vera,; M’Closkey, Kathy,; O’Neill, John,; Park, George,; Riggins, Stephen Harold,; Shields, Rob,; Stanley, Nick,; Vastokas, Joan M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Riggins, Stephen H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 115
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (482 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I The dialogic object: Artifacts as agents and processes --; The genuine article --; Glorious obsessions, passionate lovers, and hidden treasures: Collecting, metaphor, and the Romantic ethic --; Objects and their maker: Bricolage of the self --; Fieldwork in the living room: An autoethnographic essay --; Bridewealth revisited --; Melanesian artifacts as cultural markers: A micro-anthropological study --; Part II The built environment and the political ecology of artifacts --; The logic of the mall --; The ideological commodification of culture: Architectural heritage and domestic tourism in Japan --; “Take home Canada”: Representations of aboriginal peoples as tourist souvenirs --; Objects, texts, and practices: The refrigerator in consumer discourses between the wars --; Communicating democracy: Or shine, perishing republic --; Part III Clothing and adornment: The skin of culture --; Are artifacts texts? Lithuanian woven sashes as social and cosmic transactions --; Feathers and fringes: A semiotic approach to powwow dancers’ regalia --; Navajo weaving as sacred metaphor --; What is a t-shirt? Codes, chronotypes, and everyday objects --; Interpreted, circulating, interpreting: The three dimensions of the clothing object --; Psychoanalytic jewels: The domestic drama of Dora and Freud --; Subject Index --; Name Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110882469; 9783110637939
• ISSN: 0066-5576
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110882469
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stephen H. Riggins.