Semiotics of Peasants in Transition: Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America

Irene Portis-Winner

Published by Duke University Press 2002

Semiotics of Peasants in Transition

Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America

Irene Portis-Winner
Edited by: C. H. Van Schooneveld

In the series Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383666

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About this book

Offers a new way of doing ethnography, based on an analysis of interaction between immigrants from a small village in Slovenia to the U.S. and the culture they left.

Author / Editor information

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

Reviews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. A Glance at the Village and Its Sister Ethnic Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
II Theoretical Issues and Terminology: From the Outer to the Inner Point of View
2. Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, Transnationalism: Issues of Terminology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Can We Find the Inner Point of View? Interpretative Anthropology, Performance Anthropology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. Semiotics of Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
III The Village and the Slovene Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing: A Historical Perspective
5. ˇZerovnica: Its Past and the Question of the Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
6. The Story of the Ethnic Community in Cleveland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
IV Semiotic Portraits
7. Semiotic Portraits in Cultural Context Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
8. Concluding Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 200
Illustrations
- Other: 13 b&w photos, 4 figures

eBook

Published: July 1, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383666