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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 115Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (482 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110141337
  • 9783110882469
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 22
LOC classification:
  • GN406 .S63 1994eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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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

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Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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