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.)

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