SIGNS IN SOCIETY - STIBA Malang

x I Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments I xi
Frank Reynolds, Paul Powers, and Robert Hunt (Ch. 7), and Eric Reeves (Ch.
8). It is a great pleasure to thank the students who have studied symbolic analysis
and semiotic anthropology with me over the years; many of the interpretations
advanced in this book were developed in the dialogic atmosphere of my classes
and seminars. Finally, I like to think that David Zilberman would have enjoyed
this book.
Chapter 8 was first presented at the symposium "Convention and Knowledge:
The Anatomy of Agreement in Contemporary Intellectual Culture" on October
25, 1985, in Northampton, Mass. It appeared originally as "Naturalization
of Convention: A Process in Social Theory and in Social Reality," Comparative
Social Research 11 (l^^-.xj^-^. Copyright © 1989 by JAI Press. Reprinted
by permission of JAI Press.
The chapters included in this volume have been revised from their original
presentation and publication forms. The sources are as follows:
Chapter 1 appeared originally as "Peirce Divested for Non-Intimates,"
RSISI: Recherches Sémiotique I Semiotic Inquiry 7 (i987):i9—39. Copyright ©
1987 by the Canadian Semiotic Association. Reprinted by permission of RSISI.
Chapter 2 was first presented at the Center for Psychosocial Studies (Chicago)
on June 8, 1982. This chapter has been adapted and reprinted by permission
of the publisher from "Signs' Place in Médias Res: Peirce's Theory of
Semiotic Mediation," in Semiotic Mediation, ed. Elizabeth Mertz and Richard
J. Parmentier (Orlando: Academic Press, 1985). Copyright © 1985 by Academic
Press, Inc.
Chapter 3 was first presented at Brandeis University on March 4, 1988. It
originally appeared as "Transactional Symbolism in Belauan Mortuary Rites: A
Diachronie Study, " Journal of the Polynesian Society 97 (1988): 281—312. Copyright
© 1988 by The Polynesian Society. Reprinted by permission of the journal
of Polynesian Studies.
Chapter 4 was first presented at The Graduate Center, City University of
New York, on March 11,1988. It appeared originally as "The Political Function
of Reported Speech: A Belauan Example," in Reflexive Language: Reported
Speech and Metapragmatics, ed. John A. Lucy (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted
by permission of Cambridge University Press.
Chapter 5 appeared originally as "Tropical Semiotics: Global, Local, and
Discursive Contexts of Symbolic Obviation," Semiotica 79(1/2): 167—95. Copyright
© 1990 by Mouton.
Chapter 6 was first presented (in two parts) at meetings of the American
Anthropological Association on November 19, 1988, and on November 15,
1989. It appeared originally as "The Semiotic Regimentation of Social Life,"
Semiotica 95(3/4): 357-95. Copyright © 1993 by Mouton de Gruyter. Reprinted
by permission of Mouton de Gruyter (A Division of Walter de Gruyter
& Co.).
Chapter 7 was first presented at the conference "Toward a Comparative
Philosophy of Religions" at The Divinity School, University of Chicago, on May
9,199z.