Rethinking Intertextuality: Research Method in the Sociology of Culture is a book that retheorize the concept of intertextuality through issues of theoretical microsociology considered from the perspective of phenomenology and hermeneutic in interpretative, simbolic interactionist sociology, ethnometodology, opeing new paths between the semiological theory of texts, intertextuality and field research discussing major questions such as the relation between thought, being and writings, intertextuality as an issue to focuss to the study of the relation between restauration and conservation of material and visual culture patrimonies seen as a text and the texts of interactions between memory, communities and tourism, the pivotal play of meaning construction and sense conducting the research method interaction in understanding urban collectors, transculturation as double issue in between United States and México evolving cultural identity sensibilities and identity formations on both sides specifically interpreting it by discussing modalities of transcultural ethnography practiced in between both sides, the issue of the observer observed and an analysis on posmodernism leer todo...

The Semantic Elucidation: Semiotic Theory, Sociolinguistic and Semantique of Culture, is a book that theoretize and discuss new paths to the Semantique of Culture by atributing more relevance to Semiotic Theory inside Research Methodology of microsociology and cultural anthropology, after a first theoretical discussion of the issue as previously considered in anthropology, the book develops a series of empirical research chapters on Yoruba Religion, A sociolinguistic analysis of Venezuelan spanish, discussing Bilinguism, dialects and ideolects of amerindian languages, such as the wayuus, through Venezuelan Spanish, the study of visual cultural and material culture in the urban popular markets of Venezuela, and the study of Texas Folklore and culture, and cuban ideolects. A book which, as the books "Rethinking Intertextuality" and "The Methonimies of the Museum" both of the same author, renew and originally innovate from a new generation perspective the tradition of posmodern anthropology started since "Writing Culture" leer todo...