A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
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Finland-Italy
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Annotation: This book consists of a comparative study of the cultures of Italy and Finland, focusing on five cases, including the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology.
Identifier: 9789525576023
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Muotokuvia
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Other title information: Tulkintoja, Muistelmia, Tarnoita
Annotation: Portraits is a work in which culture, art and science are approached through the persons who practice them. Some are famous men and women in the Finnish context, from Mannerheim to Ville Vallgren and Anna Sahlstén, while others are international celebrities from Ludvig II and George Sand to Umberto Eco. Memoirs, documents, letters and anecdotes about the lives of the lesser-known are passed on to those who have not known them. Various life works attract the author to intellectual reflections and analyses. But through them the author also draws his own profile as a semiotician, musician and scholar.
Identifier: 9525431142
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Music and the Arts
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Other title information: Volume II
Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.
Identifier: 9525431096
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The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov's Fiction
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Other title information: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
Annotation: Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation of scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of "modeling" in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in ( post)modernist culture. By drawing on Y. Lotman's conception of artistic models, the book adopts the semiotic perspective on modeling as an open-ended heuristic process underlying the logic of discovery and creative thinking. The book discusses the models of time and memory in modernist culture (Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy of time, Minkowski's research on the psychopathological types of temporality) and their relevance to Nabokov's fiction; popular-scientific notions of serialism and the fourth dimension; thematizations of the observer in modernist philosophy and arts; visual "prostheses" and "machines" (Eco), particularly the "camera vision" metaphor, its relation to Bergson's notion of automatism and the popular idea of the criminal use of hypnosis. Vision is also thematized as a means of seduction and noncoercive control. Even before Foucault, Baudrillard and other critics of modernity, Nabokov noticed that advertising, political propaganda and erotic seduction alike employ implicit forms of suggestion. The book revises Rorty's dilemma of "autonomy" and "solidarity" as applied to Nabokov's work and offers new readings. It considers categories of narrative poetics as forms of cultural encoding that broaden and transform reader's modes of perception and sense-making. Micro-models active in certain contexts or in the works of certain authors function as mobile interfaces between individual sensibilities and complex cultural chrono- and spatio-types where time and space take on conceptual meaning.
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Perceptographic code in visual culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 137-158
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.05
Semiosphere and/as the research object of semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 159-173
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.06
The problem of the autocatalytic origin of culture in Juri Lotman’s cultural philosophy
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 191-204
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.08
Vietnam Tourism
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Annotation: This book presents a one-of-a-kind analysis of important touristic icons in Vietnamese culture. It also offers a firsthand look at daily life in Vietnam, as well as a semiotic analysis of Vietnam's dominant cultural symbols. Vietnam Tourism paints a vivid portrait of this country's hidden gems and popular tourist destinations, exploring the problems and possibilities Vietnam faces in developing its tourism industry. Over twenty photographs - including a twelve-page color photo section - bring images of this unique country to life.
Identifier: 0789025701
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The savage mind
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Notes: Originally published in 1962
Annotation: Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies
Identifier: 0297995235
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Semiotics of culture and New Polish Ethnology
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 271-279
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.12
Семиотика в действие (Semiotika v deistvije)
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- Сборник (sbornik)
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Annotation: The publication brings together selected articles, studies and parts of monographs on semiotics, in which the most prominent working semioticians in the world demonstrate the applied and theoretical potential of the discipline. In three sections - "Semiotics and theory of culture", "Semiotics and practice", "Semiotics", the texts of Paul Cobley, Jeff Bernard, Hugo Volley, Roland Posner, Gloria Witthalm, Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund, Susan Petrilli, are presented. Augusto Ponzio, Patricia Calefato, Eero Tarasti.
Identifier: 9545353104
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Is cultural logic an appropriate concept? A semiotic perspective on the study of culture and logic
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 455-464
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.06
Metamorphoses
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Other title information: towards a materialist theory of becoming
Annotation: This original contribution to current debates is written for those who find changes and transformations challenging and necessary. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, feminist theory, gender studies, sociology, social theory and cultural studies.
Identifier: 0745625762
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Readers of the book of life
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- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
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Signs in use
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Other title information: an introduction to semiotics
Notes: Danish edition originally published 1994 as Tegn i Brug
Annotation: This book cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a theory and a set of analytical tools: code, sign, discourse, action, text, and culture
Identifier: 0415262038
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Spatial semiosis in culture
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 441-454
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.05
Translation as translating as culture
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 593-605
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.14
I Quattro Elementi
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- nella Globalità dei Linguaggi
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Annotation: The vision of the world through the 4 elements (air, water, earth, fire) is revised in this book from the perspective of the Globality of Languages. The starting idea is that we humans are also made of the same matter and laws as the universe. The result of this proposal is to interpret in a unitary way through the elements, human characteristics and behaviours, especially communicative and expressive ones, from the everyday and common ones to the more extraordinary ones of artistic expressions, to the so-called "senseless" behaviours.
Identifier: 882631411X
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Live Samba
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- Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode
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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.
Identifier: 9519865497
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New science
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Other title information: Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations
Annotation: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Identifier: 0140435697
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On the biological concept of subjective significance: A link between the semiotics of nature and the semiotics of culture
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 83-106
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.06
Propedeutica della traduzione
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Other title information: Corso Introduttivo con tavole sinottiche
Annotation: Per imparare a tradurre occorre molta esperienza ma l'attivià practica va fin dall'inizio inquadrata in un contesto teorico di riferimento che fornisca alcuno principi metodologici. Questo volume rispomde a tale esigenza collocandosi al livellos preparatorio delgli studi universitari nel campo della traduzione. Learning to translate requires a lot of experience, but the practical activity must be framed from the beginning in a theoretical context of reference that provides some methodological principles. This volume responds to this need by placing itself at the preparatory level of university studies in the field of translation. (translated with google translate)
Identifier: 8820329352
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Theatre at the crossroads of culture
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Annotation: Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust.
Identifier: 0415060389
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‘I have a picture of it’: Ethnographic / ethnosemiotic explanation of visual descriptions
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.303
<i> <b>De ridiculis</b> </i>
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 291-302
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.291
<i> <b>Genius loci</b> </i>
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 233-242
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.233
<i>Langage, </i>an actual partner to <i>discours </i>and <i>langue</i>
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.487
A field approach to word semantics
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 259-280
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.259
An Anthropology of The European Union
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- Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe
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Annotation: Representing a new trend in European Anthropology, this book examines how people adjust to their different experiences of the new Europe. The role of culture, religion, and ideology, as well as insiders' social and professional practices, are all shown to shed light on the cultural logic sustaining the institutions and policies of the European Union
Identifier: 1859733247
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An early Hungarian hermetist-semiotician: János Molnár
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 561-580
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.561
Bloom's morning
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Other title information: Coffee, Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life
Annotation: In a series of short vignettes illustrated by the author, Berger performs a semiotic analysis of typical morning rituals.
Identifier: 0595167500
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Can a philosopher be without roots? A comparative study of the philosophies of John Dewey and George Santayana
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 281-290
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.281
Contents/Sommaire Volume 128 (2000)
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 611-612
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.611
Cultural borders and creation of culture
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 359-376
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.359
Ego meets Alter: The meaning of otherness in cultural semiotics
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 537-560
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.537
Gesture jokes in Hungary
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.205
History, mentalities, justifications: The case of post-war Romanian memoirs
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 387-406
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.387
Illness as social indicator: Hysteria in Schnitzler and Freud
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 513-526
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.513
Moving target
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Other title information: theatre translation and cultural relocation
Annotation: This is an exploration of the practice of translating for the theatre. It contains 12 essays from eastern and western Europe, Canada and the US which draw togther translation theory with contemporary practice.
Identifier: 1900650274
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Narrative structures in culture
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 407-424
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.407
Peirce’s three types of reasoning in a contemporary perspective
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 377-386
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.377
Preface: For Vilmos Voigt
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.199
Remembering the collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 435-444
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.435
Semiosis and semiosics vs. semiotics
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 425-434
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.425
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.u
The ‘human behavior complex’ and the compulsion of communication: Key factors of human evolution
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 243-258
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.243
The mask of maidenhood: Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 349-358
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.349
The music of the spheres
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 527-536
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.527
The Perception of the Environment
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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
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The Reagan Effect: Self-presentation in humans and computers
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 445-486
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.445