Richard J. Parmentier is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau; Signs in Society: Studies in Semiotic Anthropology; and The Pragmatic Semiotics of Cultures. With Elizabeth Mertz, he coedited Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives. He is Editor-in-Chief of Signs and Society; Affiliated Researcher, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Korea); and Foreign Member, Doctoral Program in Humanities, University of Turin (Italy).

Acknowledgments

Part I: Foundations of Peircean Semiotics

1. Semiotic Anthropology

2. Charles S. Peirce

3. Representation, Symbol, and Semiosis: Signs of a Scholarly Collaboration

4. Peirce and Saussure on Signs and Ideas in Language

5. Troubles with Trichotomies: Reflections on the Utility of Peirce's Sign Trichotomies for Social Analysis

6. Semiotic Degeneracy of Social Life: Prolegomenon to a Human Science of Semiosis

Part II: Critical Commentaries and Reviews

7. Representing Semiotics in the New Millennium

8. The World Has Changed Forever: Semiotic Reflections on the Experience of Sudden Change

9. Description and Comparison of Religion

10. It's About Time: On the Semiotics of Temporality

11. Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind

12. Two Marxes: Evolutionary and Critical Dimensions of Marxian Social Theory

Part III: Comparative Perspectives on Semiosis

13. Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactions Dimensions of Palauan Exchange

14. Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence / With Massimo Leone

15. The 'Savvy Interpreter': Performance and Interpretation in Pindar's Victory Odes / With Nancy Felson

List of References

Index