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8. What a Beautiful Ring!: The Meaning of Clothes and Objects

verfasst von : Marcel Danesi

Erschienen in: Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Clothes, fashion styles, everyday objects, and technology itself (the process of inventing and producing tools and objects) constitute, generically, what anthropologists call material culture. This has been a fertile area of investigation by semioticians. From the meanings of dress codes, and fashion shows, to the significance of fads such as Hula Hoops and video games, the semiotic approach focuses on the interconnections between some object to the network of connotations that make up a culture. This chapter will look at the semiotics of material culture, focusing on the role of technology in the evolution of human societies. It will also discuss Neil Postman’s notion of technopoly, or the view that contemporary societies are governed by technology, rather than people controlling technology.

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Vorheriges Kapitel At Arm’s Length: The Meanings of Spaces

Nächstes Kapitel Art Is Indistinguishable from Life: The Artistic Nature of the Human Species

Helen E. Fisher, Anatomy of love (New York: Norton, 1992), 253–4.

In The sacred and the profane: The nature of religion (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961), Mircea Eliade gives an in-depth analysis of how the sacred vs. profane dichotomy undergirds the constitution of cultures generally.

See, for example, Mikhail Bakhtin, The dialogic imagination (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), and Speech genres and other late essays (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986).

Ted Greenwald, Rock & roll (New York: Friedman, 1992), 53.

Robin Wood, Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979), 23.

Marshall McLuhan, The mechanical bride: Folklore of industrial man (New York: Vanguard, 1951).

Donald A. Norman, The design of everyday things (New York: Basic Books, 2002), xiv.

Edward B. Tylor, Primitive culture (London: Murray, 1871).

Gary Alan Fine, Shared fantasy: Role-playing games as social worlds (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 5.

Ibid, p. 59.

Ibid, p. 60

Steven Johnson, Everything bad is good for you: How today’s popular culture is actually making us smarter (New York: Riverside Books, 2005).

An analysis of hypertextuality is the one by George P. Landow, Hypertext 3.0: Critical theory and new media in an era of globalization (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Neil Postman, Technopoly: The surrender of culture to technology (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992).

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———. 1986. Speech genres and other late essays. Austin: University of Texas Press.

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McLuhan, Marshall. 1951. The mechanical bride: Folklore of industrial man. New York: Vanguard.

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Titel: What a Beautiful Ring!: The Meaning of Clothes and Objects
verfasst von: Marcel Danesi
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Buch: Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-95347-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-349-95348-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95348-6_8