The Socialness of Things : : Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects / / ed. by Stephen H. Riggins.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (482 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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