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<p>Acknowledgments<br>Part I: Foundations of Peircean Semiotics<br>1. Semiotic Anthropology<br>2. Charles S. Peirce<br>3. Representation, Symbol, and Semiosis: Signs of a Scholarly Collaboration<br>4. Peirce and Saussure on Signs and Ideas in Language<br>5. Troubles with Trichotomies: Reflections on the Utility of Peirce's Sign Trichotomies for Social Analysis<br>6. Semiotic Degeneracy of Social Life: Prolegomenon to a Human Science of Semiosis<br>Part II: Critical Commentaries and Reviews<br>7. Representing Semiotics in the New Millennium<br>8. The World Has Changed Forever: Semiotic Reflections on the Experience of Sudden Change<br>9. Description and Comparison of Religion<br>10. It's About Time: On the Semiotics of Temporality<br>11. Anthropological Encounters of a Semiotic Kind<br>12. Two Marxes: Evolutionary and Critical Dimensions of Marxian Social Theory<br>Part III: Comparative Perspectives on Semiosis<br>13. Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactions Dimensions of Palauan Exchange<br>14. Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence / With Massimo Leone<br>15. The 'Savvy Interpreter': Performance and Interpretation in Pindar's Victory Odes / With Nancy Felson<br>List of References<br>Index</p>

<p>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).</p>

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