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The socialness of things, essays on the socio-semiotics of objects, edited by Stephen Harold Riggins

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The socialness of things, essays on the socio-semiotics of objects, edited by Stephen Harold Riggins

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

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The socialness of things

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bibliographydictionaries

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edited by Stephen Harold Riggins

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Approaches to semiotics, 115

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essays on the socio-semiotics of objects

Table Of Contents

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 autoethnographhic 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 mallThe 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 metahorWhat 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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