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UNINA9910788975403321 |
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Autore |
Singer Milton B. |
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Titolo |
Semiotics of cities, selves, and cultures : explorations in semiotic anthropology / / by Milton Singer |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1991 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2012] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Collana |
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Approaches to semiotics ; ; 102 |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Culture - Semiotic models |
Ethnology - Philosophy |
Symbolism |
Cities and towns - United States |
Cities and towns - India |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-373) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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