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Notes: Sign-worlds. Studies from the Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop

Annotation: The studies in this volume are part of a project on the semiotics of space, which emerged from research conducted in Budapest Contemporary Semiotics Workshop. This project is primarily based on the real fact that we live in multiple types and kinds of sign-spaces in society. These sign-spaces, such as a traffic sign system or a film location, are semiotically describable units of space filled with sign-formations and signs that are interconnected in some way. The implementation of the spatial semiotics project has three main strands, as illustrated by papers in this volume: firstly, researchers map the syntactic and other features of existing sign-spaces, and secondly, they use the resulting toolbox to refine descriptive semiotic procedures. Finally, and thirdly, they apply these tools to solve practical problems.

Identifier: 9786150188676

Status: Available

Other title information: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape

Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.

Identifier: 9783030151676

Status: Available

Other title information: A parallel between New York City and Bucharest by 1900

Annotation: This book is an excursion into the past. It deals with two cities: New York and Bucharest in the era between 1865 and 1914. The two cities are representative of the two countries they belong to, but they are also important in themselves, qua cities. This is the era when both cities were being built and began to assert their identities, when they were becoming aware of their assets and starting to talk about them

Identifier: 2016021813

Status: Available

Other title information: Other title information: Spatial Modelling and the Sociocultural World

Notes: Tiit Remm's PhD dissertation

Annotation: A dissertation about the use of space-related conceptions for studying the sociocultural world

Identifier: 9789949329281

Status: Available

Other title information: Семантика культурного ландшафта

Notes: This book has a table of contents and annotation in English.

Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.

Identifier: 9785864431627

Status: Available

Annotation: Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris -- glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism -- Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources

Identifier: 0674008022

Status: Available

Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill

Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.

Identifier: 0415228328

Status: Available

Other title information: Politics and Perspectives

Annotation: The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested

Identifier: 0854963731

Status: Available

Other title information: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece

Annotation: This book has evolved as a continuous interplay between theoratical analysis and the elaboration of empirical data. One of the aims was the presentation and systematization of these data, and from this point of view the book may be considered as a research monograph. This book also has a goal to resaon from the specific to the general, from the case study to a theoretical conception of the semiotics of macro-environments.

Identifier: 3110129566

Status: Available

Other title information: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology

Annotation: This is an overview of the semiotic connection with anthropology and an overview of what has been achieved in this field until now.

Identifier: 0899257267

Status: Available

Other title information: the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom

Annotation: The study of landscape - broadly defined as encompassing both rural and urban environments - has hithero concentrated upon the impact cultura groups have had upon its shaping and design. In The city as text : the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.

Identifier: 0521611962

Status: Available

Annotation: The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'. By applying the art-historical method of iconography - interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts - to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on its ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing, social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial, maps and paintings. The historical periods discussed include sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century England, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland and twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debates on culture and society

Identifier: 0521324378

Status: Available

Other title information: Geographical Essays

Annotation: The concern of these essays are concerned with the everyday life of a man on earth. We specify ordinary landscapes to indicate our primary interesr in that continuous surface which we can see all around us.

Identifier: 0195025369

Status: Available