Anthropology 402 - Semiotics and Structuralism

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. The course begins by examining Peirce's semiotic and Saussure's structural linguistics, thereafter taking up the theoretical influences of these on the anthropologies and linguistic anthropologies that came after: the French structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson's linguistic poetic, the structural histories and agencies of Marshall Sahlins, the pragmatics (and metapragmatics and ethno-metapragmatics) of Michael Silverstein, the ethno-poetics of Dell Hymes, and the (notional) post-structuralism of Michel Foucault. The course addresses the relations that signs and symbols contract with each other, with their meanings, and with their contexts. The course addresses the contemporary status of ideas of cultural and linguistic "structure," both overt and covert, in the light of assorted "anti-structuralist" turns in recent social theory. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211 or Linguistics 311. Confe

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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