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Brilliantly articulating the potent intersections of semiotic and linguistic anthropology, Signs and Society demonstrates how a keen appreciation of signs helps us better understand human agency, meaning, and creativity. Inspired by the foundational contributions of C. S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, and drawing upon key insights from neighboring scholarly fields, noted anthropologist Richard J. Parmentier develops an array of innovative conceptual tools for ethnographic, historical, and literary research. His concepts of "transactional value," "metapragmatic interpretant," and "circle of semiosis," for example, illuminate the foundations and effects of such diverse cultural forms and practices as economic exchanges on the Pacific island of Palau, Pindar's Victory Odes in ancient Greece, and material representations of transcendence in ancient Egypt and medieval Christianity. Other studies complicate the separation of emic and etic analytical models for such cultural domains as religion, economic value, and semiotic ideology. Provocative and absorbing, these fifteen pioneering essays blaze a trail into anthropology's future while remaining firmly rooted in its celebrated past.

Signs and symbols. --- Semiotics --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Representation, Symbolic --- Signs --- Symbolic representation --- Symbols --- Abbreviations --- Omens --- Sign language --- Symbolism --- Visual communication --- Philosophy. --- Semiotic models. --- Methodology

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This volume examines the intersections between material and metaphorical mirrors in medieval and early modern culture. Mirrors have always fascinated humankind. They collapse ordinary distinctions, making visible what is normally invisible, and promising access to hidden realities. Yet, these liminal objects also point to the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom. In this interdisciplinary volume, specialists in medieval and early modern science, cultural and political history, as well as art history, philosophy, and literature come together to explore the intersections between material and metaphysical mirrors in Europe and the Islamic world. During the time periods studied here, various technologies were transforming the looking glass as an optical device, scientific instrument, and aesthetic object, making it clearer and more readily available, though it remained a rare and precious commodity. While technical innovations spawned new discoveries and ways of seeing, belief systems were slower to change, as expressed in the natural sciences, mystical writings, literature, and visual culture. Mirror metaphors based on analogies established in the ancient world still retained significant power and authority, perhaps especially when related to Aristotelian science, the medieval speculum tradition, religious iconography, secular imagery, Renaissance Neoplatonism, or spectacular Baroque engineering, artistry, and self-fashioning. Mirror effects created through myths, metaphors, rhetorical strategies, or other devices could invite self-contemplation and evoke abstract or paradoxical concepts. Whether faithful or deforming, specular reflections often turn out to be ambivalent and contradictory: sometimes sources of illusion, sometimes reflections of divine truth, mirrors compel us to question the very nature of representation.

History of civilization --- specular reflection --- mirrors --- Symbolism --- Mirrors --- Mirrors in literature --- History --- Aberration, Chromatic and spherical --- Looking-glasses --- Furniture --- Optical instruments --- Representation, Symbolic --- Symbolic representation --- Mythology --- Emblems --- Signs and symbols --- 930.85.42 --- 930.85.44 --- 930.85.44 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- cultuurgeschiedenis

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Culture. --- Social interaction. --- Perception. --- Signs and symbols. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Representation, Symbolic --- Semeiotics --- Signs --- Symbolic representation --- Symbols --- Abbreviations --- Omens --- Semiotics --- Sign language --- Symbolism --- Visual communication --- Supraliminal perception --- Cognition --- Apperception --- Senses and sensation --- Thought and thinking --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects

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From antiquity to the modern age, legal, documentary, exegetical, literary, and linguistic traditions have viewed the relationship between image and letter in diverse ways. There is a long history of scholarship examining this relationship, probing the manner and meaning of its dynamics in terms of equivalency, complementarity, and polarity. 00This volume addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Historians -including specialists in art and literature- paleographers, and anthropologists consider imagistic scripts of the ancient and medieval Near East, Europe, Byzantium, and Latin America, and within Jewish, polytheistic, Christian, and Muslim cultures. They engage with pictographic, ideographic, and logographic writing systems, as well as with alphabetic scripts, examining diverse examples of cross-pollination between language and art.

Writing in art --- Writing and art --- Picture-writing, Indian --- Monograms --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Signs and symbols --- Ecriture dans l'art --- Ecriture et art --- Ecriture pictographique indienne d'Amérique --- Monogrammes --- Enluminure médiévale --- Signes et symboles --- History --- Congresses. --- Religious aspects --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Aspect religieux --- Writing in art. --- Picture-writing --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Representation, Symbolic --- Semeiotics --- Signs --- Symbolic representation --- Symbols --- Abbreviations --- Omens --- Semiotics --- Sign language --- Symbolism --- Visual communication --- Painting, Medieval --- Ciphers (Lettering) --- Decoration and ornament --- Inscriptions --- Lettering --- Alphabets --- Initials --- Ideography --- Pictographs --- Pictography --- Archaeology --- Hieroglyphics --- Writing --- Art and writing --- Art --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- 091.14 : 003 --- 091.31 --- 091.14 --- 091.14:003 --- 091.14:003 Codices--schrift-- Zie ook: {930.272} Paleografie --- Codices--schrift-- Zie ook: {930.272} Paleografie --- 091.31 Verluchte handschriften --- Verluchte handschriften --- 091.14 Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Calligraphy --- Calligraphy. --- Monograms. --- Picture-writing. --- Writing and art. --- Ecriture pictographique indienne d'Amérique --- Enluminure médiévale --- Congrès