Semiotics of Peasants in Transition - Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America

"This is an important ethnography, very different from the usual run-of-the-mill village ethnographies of ex-Yugoslavia, and the methodology followed is a useful and potentially important addition to the literature on transnationalism."--Michael Herzfeld, author of "Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State"

List of contents

Acknowledgments

I. The Dynamics of a Dialogic Relation between a Peasant Village and Its Ethnic Counterpart: A Semiotic Approach
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Prologue: “The Strange Intruder” (from Peirce): A Peasant Village and Its Many Others

1. A Glance at the Village and Its Sister Ethnic Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing

II. Theoretical Issues and Terminology: From the Outer to the Inner Point of View

2. Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, Transnationalism: Issues of Terminology

3. Can We Find the Inner Point of View? Interpretative Anthropology, Performance Anthropology

4. Semiotics of Culture
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III. The Village and the Slovene Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing: A Historical Perspective

5. Zerovnica: Its Past and the Question of the Future

6. The Story of the Ethnic Community in Cleveland

IV. Semiotic Portraits

7. Semiotic Portraits in Cultural Context

8. Concluding Remarks

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the author

Irene Portis-Winner is a Visiting Scholar (2002–2003) at the Philosophy of Education Research Center, Harvard University.

Summary

Offers a new way of doing ethnography, based on an analysis of interaction between immigrants from a small village in Slovenia to the US and the culture they left.

Product details

• Authors: Irene Portis-Winner, Irene Portis-Winner, Irene Winner
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780822328278
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2827-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 590 g
• Illustrations: 13 b&w photos, 4 figures
• Series: Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics; Sound & Meaning: The Roman Jak; Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics; Sound and Meaning: The Roman J
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziolinguistik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social