Acknowledgments  

I. The Dynamics of a Dialogic Relation between a Peasant Village and Its Ethnic Counterpart: A Semiotic Approach   

Prologue: The Strange Intruder (from Peirce): A Peasant Village and Its Many Others  

1. A Glance at the Village and Its Sister Ethnic Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing  

II. Theoretical Issues and Terminology: From the Outer to the Inner Point of View  

2. Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, Transnationalism: Issues of Terminology  

3. Can We Find the Inner Point of View? Interpretative Anthropology, Performance Anthropology  

4. Semiotics of Culture   

III. The Village and the Slovene Communities in Cleveland and Hibbing: A Historical Perspective  

5. Zerovnica: Its Past and the Question of the Future  

6. The Story of the Ethnic Community in Cleveland  

IV. Semiotic Portraits  

7. Semiotic Portraits in Cultural Context  

8. Concluding Remarks  

Notes  

Selected Bibliography  

Index  

"[This book is] a tribute to [Portis-Winner's] creativity and contains a valuable body of data relevant to Slovene ethnic history."—Arthur J. Vidich, Slovene Studies

"[A] slim and friendly book. . . . With Semiotics of Peasants, Portis-Winner offers us a book that is 'good to think' from any number of perspectives. . . . [It] enriches the ethnography and anthropology of Europe. . . . [R]emarkable, and well worth our attention."—Jennifer R. Cash, Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe

"[This book is] a tribute to [Portis-Winner's] creativity and contains a valuable body of data relevant to Slovene ethnic history."—Arthur J. Vidich, Slovene Studies

"[A] slim and friendly book. . . . With Semiotics of Peasants, Portis-Winner offers us a book that is 'good to think' from any number of perspectives. . . . [It] enriches the ethnography and anthropology of Europe. . . . [R]emarkable, and well worth our attention."—Jennifer R. Cash, Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe

“This is an important ethnography, very different from the usual run-of-the-mill village ethnographies of ex-Yugoslavia, and the methodology followed is a useful and potentially important addition to the literature on transnationalism.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State

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