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Semiotics of Cities, Selves, and Cultures : Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology / Milton Singer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 102Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (380 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110126013
  • 9783110857757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 23
LOC classification:
  • GN452.5.S5
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-vi -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On remembering some founding fathers and mothers -- Search for a great tradition in cultural performances -- Yankee City in renaissance -- A semiotic of the city: Purusha and Corbusier's modulor as architectural symbols -- The symbolic and historic structure of an American identity -- The semiotics of the id -- A conversation of cultures: The United States and Southern Asia -- A neglected source of Lévi-Strauss' structuralism: Radcliffe-Brown, Russell, and Whitehead -- Peirce, Malinowski and the emergence of semiotic anthropology -- Notes -- References -- Index -- 381-382

i-vi -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On remembering some founding fathers and mothers -- Search for a great tradition in cultural performances -- Yankee City in renaissance -- A semiotic of the city: Purusha and Corbusier's modulor as architectural symbols -- The symbolic and historic structure of an American identity -- The semiotics of the id -- A conversation of cultures: The United States and Southern Asia -- A neglected source of Lévi-Strauss' structuralism: Radcliffe-Brown, Russell, and Whitehead -- Peirce, Malinowski and the emergence of semiotic anthropology -- Notes -- References -- Index -- 381-382

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