Rick Parmentier

Title

Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology
International and Global Studies

Expertise

Semiotic anthropology. Historical anthropology. Material culture. Language and communications. Oceania. Middle Ages. United States. Written extensively on the semiotic theory of the American philosopher, C.S. Peirce.

Profile

Deals with the comparative semiotic analysis of material culture in three sites: megaliths on the Micronesian island of Palau (Belau), art and architecture in the European High Middle Ages, and advertising images in contemporary mass media.

Degrees

University of Chicago, Ph.D.

University of Chicago, M.A.

Princeton University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	rparmentier@brandeis.edu
Phone:	6-2220
Office:	Brown Social Science Center, 221

Awards and Honors

Mouton d'Or Prize for best 1997 publication in Semiotics (The Pragmatic Semiotics of Culture) (1997 - 1998)

AB Summa Cum Laude Independent Concentration in Anthropology Princeton University (1971)

Courses Taught

ANTH	108b	History, Time, and Tradition
ANTH	114b	Verbal Art and Cultural Performance
ANTH	121a	Crossing Cultural Boundaries
ANTH	126b	Symbol, Meaning, and Reality: Explorations in Cultural Semiotics
ANTH	201a	History of Anthropological Thought
ANTH	203b	Contemporary Anthropological Theory
GS	202b	Critical Global Issues
USEM	54a	Ideas of Equality, Systems of Inequality

Scholarship

Parmentier, Richard. ""The World Has Changed Forever: Semiotic Reflections on the Study of Sudden Change"." Semiotica 192. (2013): 235-242.

Parmentier, Richard. "Troubles with Trichotomies: Reflections on the Utility of Peirce's Trichotomies for Social Analysis." Semiotica 177. (2009): 139-156.

Parmentier, Richard. "It's About Time: On the Semiotics of Temporality." Language & Communication 27. 2 (2007): 272-277.

Parmentier, Richard. "Palau." Garland Encyclopedia of World Folklores and Folklife. vol. 1 Garland, 2006. 358-365.

Parmentier, Richard. "Semiotic Anthropology." International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier, 2005

Parmentier,Richard. "Description and Comparison in Religion." History of Religions 43. (2005): 233-245.

Parmentier, Richard. "Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactional Dimensions of Palauan Exchange." L'Homme 162. 1 (2002): 49-80.

Parmentier, Richard. "Representing Semiotics in the New Millennium." Semiotica 142. (2002): 291-314.

Parmentier, Richard. "Charles S. Peirce." Handbook of Pragmatics. Ed. Jef Verschueren. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997. 1-18.

Parmentier,Richard. The Pragmatic Semiotics of Cultures. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.

Parmentier, Richard. "Haole-ing in the Wind: On the Rhetoric of Identity Anthropology." Anthropological Quarterly 69. 4 (1996): 220-230.

Parmentier, Richard. "Miklouho-Maclay in Palau, 1876." ISLA: A Journal of Micronesian Studies 4. 1 (1996): 71-108.

Parmentier, Richard. "Comparison, Pragmatics, and Interpretation in the Comparative Philosophy of Religion." Religion and Practical Reason: New Essays in the Comparative Philosophy of Religion. Ed. Frank E. Reynolds and David Tracy. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994. 407-440.

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