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UNINA9910788553103321 |
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Neiva Júnior Eduardo |
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Communication games [[electronic resource] ] : the semiotic foundation of culture / / by Eduardo Neiva |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Approaches to applied semiotics, , 1612-6769 ; ; 5 |
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Disciplina |
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Communication and culture |
Semiotics |
Game theory |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-296) and index. |
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Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part 1. Canonical games -- Chapter 1. Conflict -- Chapter 2. Coordination -- Chapter 3. Contract -- Part 2. Ancestral games -- Chapter 4. Origin -- Chapter 5. Sex, signals -- Part 3. Individual games -- Chapter 6. Strategies -- Chapter 7. Players -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Communication Games is a new and radical interpretation of the relationship between culture and communication. It explores the idea that culture and communication studies should be seen predominantly in relation to struggles and conflicts within the social arena. It criticizes the conventional heritage of the social sciences and humanities. Culture and communication are conceived not merely as means of integrating social actors, but as semiotic ways of providing fitness indicators that allow for the resolution of competition between individuals. From the perspective of Peircean semiotics and the Darwinian understanding of life processes, Communication Games redefines culture in terms of Darwin's notion of sexual selection. Moving on from the realization that sexual selection creates individual organisms with conflicting interests, Communication Games emphasizes the contribution of game theory to semiotics and communication studies. The book demonstrates how cooperation and shared conventions eventually emerge, and how conflicts are resolved through the display of costly and inflated signs. It |
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is from these inflated signs and the escalation of excessive messages that cultures gain a certain degree of stability. Communication Games proposes a new way of understanding culture, communication, and semiotic exchange in terms of game theory. |
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UNINA9910780637203321 |
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Chinese religiosities [[electronic resource] ] : afflictions of modernity and state formation / / edited by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
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1-282-35612-7 |
9786612356124 |
0-520-91620-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (473 p.) |
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Global, area, and international archive |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Religion and state - China - History - 20th century |
China Religion 20th century |
China Civilization 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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"Most of the essays in this volume were first presented at the International Conference on Religion, Modernity, and the State in China and Taiwan, held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 28-20, 2005"--P. vii. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-435) and index. |
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Pt. I. Religious approaches to citizenship : the traffic between religious orders and the secular national order -- 1. Religion and citizenship in China and the diaspora / Prasenjit Duara -- 2. Redeploying Confucius : the imperial state dreams of the nation, 1902-1911 / Ya-pei Kuo -- Pt. II. State discourse and the transformation of religious communities -- 3. Ritual competition and the modernizing nation-state / Rebecca Nedostup -- 4. Heretical doctrines, reactionary secret societies, evil cults : labeling heterodoxy in twentieth-century China / David A. Palmer -- 5. Animal spirits, karmic retribution, Falungong, and the state / Benjamin Penny -- 6. Christianity and "adaptation to socialism" / Ryan Dunch -- 7. Islam and modernity in China : secularization or |
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separatism? / Dru C. Gladney -- Pt. III. The reinvention and control of religious institutions -- 8. Republican church engineering : the national religious associations in 1912 China / Vincent Goossaert -- 9. Secularization as religious restructuring : statist institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and its paradoxes / Ji Zhe -- 10. State control of Tibetan Buddhist monasticism in the People's Republic of China / José Ignacio Cabezón -- Pt. IV. Taiwan and transnational Chinese religiosity -- 11. Religious renaissance and Taiwan's modern middle classes / Richard Madsen -- 12. Goddess across the Taiwan Strait : matrifocal ritual space, nation-state, and satellite television footprints / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. |
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The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. Chinese Religiosities explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection cover a wide range of traditions, including Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, Falungong, popular religion, and redemptive societies.Contributors: José Cabezón, Prasenjit Duara, Ryan Dunch, Dru C. Gladney, Vincent Goossaert, Ji Zhe, Ya-pei Kuo, Richard Madsen, Rebecca Nedostup, David Palmer, Benjamin Penny, Mayfair Mei-hui Yang |
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