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...Seth Fein Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps . By Child Jack . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Plates. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xx , 247 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Copyright 2010 by Duke University...

...Patricia A. McAnany Patron Gods and Patron Lords: The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults . By Baron Joanne P. . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2016 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 227 pp. Cloth , $52.00...

...David Carrasco But the boldness of conception and language with which Todorov tells this story is a very significant contribution to historians, linguists, anthropologists, and historians of religions. Only time will tell if Todorov’s semiotic approach is a reflection of the intellectual fashion...

... suggests in A Theory of Semiotics that since the meaning of a sign holds some components of culture and since every meaning of the sign can be culturally defined, culture can be studied through its semantic components. 5 The signs can be open to different interpretations and mean different things...

... as “a semiotic system-in-practice” (p. 62) and identifies several modalities of action in the never-ending quest to profit by controlling the polyvalence of signs. The first system presented is domestication, a process that, far from producing effective cultural change, entails the adoption of imported signs...

..., but it is also a very challenging work. Guaman Poma’s broken Spanish and his use of Quechua certainly make it awkward to read, but the real difficulty lies in the convergence of Spanish and native Andean modes of thought, semiotic practices, and cultural signifiers. The transcultural complexity of this text...

... might suppose. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Tlayacapán, Morelos, Ingham attempts to show that although elements of pre-Hispanic religion persist—indeed, to an extraordinary degree—“they express rather than contradict the Catholic worldview” (p. 8). Using a modern semiotic and structuralist approach...

... . Paper , $14.95 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 This book comprises two studies. One is an attempt to understand the deep structures of the allusions to U.S. history employed by contemporary U.S. leaders. This semiotic investigation is complemented by a close examination...

... develops a framework based on theory from anthropology, geography, social history, and semiotics. The very complexity of his interpretation makes it difficult to do his work justice in a short review. At its core is the use of symbolic theory to demonstrate how historically produced memory transformed...

... realities of Tereseño life. Coyle’s introductory theory chapter is mercifully brief and relatively free of jargon. He employs an updated Geertzian anthropology, articulating a thick description of Tereseño ceremonial ritual. Engaging recent semiotic theory, he clearly demonstrates that symbolic acts...

... directly participated in the conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. It is an effort that relies much more on the older tradition of the French annales school than on the more recent orientation of this group of scholars, especially in its semiotic, statistical, and graphic aspects. Grunberg managed...

... ecclesiastic. On the Italian side, Gianvittorio Signorotto charts the “semiotics of virtue” that the Capuchins, in particular, represented to the Milanese, which is why the latter occasionally used the former as ambassadors to the Spanish court. Marcello Fantoni addresses the intense interest that Medici...

... and jargon-laden, as in the following interpretation of a text by physician and writer Eduardo Wilde. According to Bergero, Wilde expressed “the semiotics of a claustrophiliac aesthetics, underlying a utopia based on isolation and exclusion” (p. 32). Some awkwardness may stem from problems of translation...

..., pragmatism, the role of the mind, neo-Kantians Weber, Gramsci, Mannheim, functionalism, linguistics, semiotics, and finally, ideas and culture in general. This whirlwind trip shows Wolf’s masterly scholarship in intellectual history; more specifically, however, it provides the antecedents of the concepts...

... as a cultural studies scholar, I inevitably wanted to engage the texts he examines as narratives and to analyze their rhetorical and discursive strategies, their semiotic aporias, and the contours of the implied reader they construct. And, too, I could not help but recall significant examples of Latin American...

... hand, iconography became a dominant interest as long ago as the 1930s, when studies of meaning began to overshadow the earlier dominance of morphological (formalist) studies. These have now been absorbed into semiotic and structuralist approaches. In the volume under review, only two papers, both...

... disciplines and traditions, with an emphasis on “semiotic realism” as put forth by Ferdinand de Saussure (p. 12). He also compares theoretical discussions of colonial transformations in other locations such as Mexico, India, and New Zealand. Undoubtedly, few societies can compare to the complex nature...

..., counterposing nods to Derrida and Foucault, and crafting what he proclaims a “semiotics of neo-hoodoo.” Elsewhere he engages the work of Ghanian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah, whose Why Are We So Blest ? is subjected to a treatise at once critical and inspiriting. Far from evading the controversies surrounding...

..., that it is no surprise that a cultural anthropologist would address these topics. Elana Shever's Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina does so with careful attention to detail and with compelling ethnography. Oil and neoliberalism, as Shever states, are “inseparably semiotic and material forces...

... emphasis on auteur theory and on psychoanalytical approaches to film. And, of course, from a semiotic point of view, everything is text, including the specific film and the sociohistorical discourses in which it is encrusted. One definitely agrees with Stites Mor that a significant sociohistorical...