Semiotics of peasants in transition : Slovene villagers and their ethnic relatives in America / Irene Portis-Winner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winner, Irene.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Sound and meaning.

Sound and meaning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Slovenia.

Ethnicity.

Slovenian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Slovenian Americans.

Culture--Semiotic models.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. 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. A Glance at the Village and Its Sister Ethnic Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing

2. Theoretical Issues and Terminology: From the Outer to the Inner Point of View. Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, Transnationalism: Issues of Terminology. Can We Find the Inner Point of View? Interpretative Anthropology, Performance Anthropology. Semiotics of Culture

3. The Village and the Slovene Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing: A Historical Perspective. Zerovnica: Its Past and the Question of the Future. The Story of the Ethnic Community in Cleveland

4. Semiotic Portraits. Semiotic Portraits in Cultural Context.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-180) and index.

ISBN:

9786612920219

9781282920217

1282920219

9780822383666

0822383667

OCLC:

850217221