The Socialness of Things: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects

by Stephen H. Riggins (Editor)

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ISBN-13:	9783110141337
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/01/1994
Series:	Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , #115
Pages:	490
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.04(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Not how or even whether things get along with each other, but the integration of objects into the social fabric of everyday human life is the subject of the 17 essays focusing on artifacts as agents and process, the built environment and the political ecology of artifacts, and the skin of culture as expressed in clothing and adornment. Specific topics include collecting and the Romantic ethic, autoethnographic fieldwork in the living room, architectural heritage and domestic tourism in Japan, representations of aboriginal peoples in Canada as tourist souvenirs, Lithuanian woven sashes as social and cosmic transactions, and codes and chronotypes of T-shirts. Revised proceedings of a 1990 international conference in Toronto. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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