Description
Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. He studies how semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.
How semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.
About the Author
RICHARD J. PARMENTIER, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University, is the author of The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau and articles on Pacific ethnography, anthropological linguistics, and semiotic theory.
Book Information
ISBN 9780253327574
Author Richard J. Parmentier
Format Hardback
Page Count 319
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 594g