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BL
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863541
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Singer, Milton.
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Semiotics of Cities.
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| Publication Statement
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Berlin :: De Gruyter,, 1991.
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| Series Statement
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Approaches to Semiotics ;; v. 102
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1 online resource (396) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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3110857758
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: 9783110857757
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| Contents
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On remembering some founding fathers and mothers -- Search for a great tradition in cultural performances -- Yankee City in renaissance -- A semiotic of the city: Purusha and Corbusier's modulor as architectural symbols -- The symbolic and historic structure of an American identity -- The semiotics of the id -- A conversation of cultures: The United States and Southern Asia -- A neglected source of Lévi-Strauss' structuralism: Radcliffe-Brown, Russell, and Whitehead
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Peirce, Malinowski and the emergence of semiotic anthropologyNotes -- References -- Index
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Cities and towns-- India.
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Cities and towns-- United States.
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Culture-- Semiotic models.
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Ethnology-- Philosophy.
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Symbolism.
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Cities and towns.
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Culture-- Semiotic models.
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Ethnology-- Philosophy.
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Symbolism.
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India.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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306
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GN452.5.S5
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