Irene Portis-Winner

Semiotics of Peasants in Transition

Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328278
• ISBN-10: 0822328275
• Artikelnr.: 21452630

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
I. The Dynamics of a Dialogic Relation between a Peasant Village and Its
Ethnic Counterpart: A Semiotic Approach
> 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
> 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