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Author Portis-Winner, Irene, 1923- author.

Title Semiotics of peasants in transition : Slovene villagers and their ethnic relatives in America / Irene Portis-Winner
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Sound and meaning
Sound and meaning.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-180) and index
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Subject Ethnicity -- Slovenia
Slovenian Americans -- Ethnic identity
Culture -- Semiotic models.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Culture -- Semiotic models
Ethnicity
Slovenian Americans -- Ethnic identity
Ländlicher Raum
Verwandtschaft
Slovenia
Slowenien
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001007554
ISBN 9780822383666
0822383667