Signs and Society

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