joseph terri brint (3 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Corporate Communication. Pages are clean and tight.

very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, attractive copy. previous owner's blindstamp on title page. JOSEPH, ROGER / JOSEPH, TERRI BRINT. The rose and the thorn: semiotic structures in Morocco. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987, x, 157pp., . Drawing on shared field experience and semiotic theory, an anthropologist and a literary analyst focus on the ``texts'' of marriage in two Berber communities. They draw critically and selectively on the varied Maghrebian research of P. Bourdieu, C. and H. Geertz, E. Gellner, David Hart, and others to achieve a challenging synthesis. By exploring the tensions between social integration and fragmentation as these affect politics, kinship, gender, and status, the authors elegantly demonstrate how structure itself affords the means of strategic manipulation. The primary focus on matrimonial institutions and practices permits a wide-ranging exploration of Berber history and culture; it also richly illustrates the reproduction of social values in narrative structure and aesthetic principles. Theoretically transparent and stylistically attractive, this specialized but appealing ethnography exemplifies important current directions in current social and aesthetic theory. In showing how lyrics "reveal the dichotomy between contractual motivations and individualistic strategies,'' the authors set the scene for a stunning analysis of exchange and reciprocity that marks this work's major contribution to the symbolism of gender relations and political process in changing societies. - buffalolib site - CONTENTS: 1. Introduction to Rifi semiotics --- 2. The relationship of the social and natural environments --- 3. Social organization and the strategy of marriage --- 4. Systems of representations --- 5. The intertextuality of Rifian poetry --- 6. The semiotic organization of exchange --- 7. Coda. 9780816509966 ISBN 0816509964.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. x, 157pp, text-figures, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket with a sunned spine. The authors apply semiotic analysis to the political, economic, ritual, and aesthetic aspects of marriage among two tribes of northern Morocco. Size: 8vo.