Semiotics of Cities, Selves, and Cultures Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Backmatter

Product details

• Authors: Milton Singer
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.1991
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore
• EAN: 9783110126013
• ISBN: 978-3-11-012601-3
• Pages: 380
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 3 x 23 cm
• Weight (packing): 710 g
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics > Vol.102; Approaches to Semiotics > 102; Approaches to Semiotics [AS] > 102; ISSN > 102
• Subjects: Semiotik, USA, kulturelle Identität, Stadtentwicklung, Südasien, auseinandersetzen