Editorial

Terry J. Prewitt, Myrdene Anderson

3-4

Why read Deely

David Lidov

5-9

How does semiosis effect renvoi?

John Deely

11-61

Sifting through the trash

63-87

The cost of scavenging

a cautionary ethnographic tale

Andy Afable

89-96

The limits of the semiotic self

Donald J. Cunningham

97-107

Sacred waste

human body parts as universal sacraments

Phyllis Passariello

109-127

"Rubble women"

the clean-up crew of World War II

Mary A. Schofield

129-149

Ritual semiosis - mumbojumbo

magic, language, semiotic dirt

Keith Dickson

151-172

Russian formalism and cultural narratives

an argument to trash the structuralist perspective

William N. Elwood

173-180

Voice, dialogue, and community

in search of the "other" in African American texts

Mary L. Bogumil

181-196

The net of language

marginalization, resistance, and difference in contemporary Irish literature

Michael R. Molino

197-213

Pink-collar trash

a critical semiotic analysis of the secretarial position

David J. Miller, Patricia J. Sotirin

215-235

Signs against trees

Jayne Tristan, Ralph McDonald

237-248

Send me your refuse

the U.S. constitution as trash collector

Robert Artigiani

249-276

Trashing and hoarding in words, deeds, and memory

a sampler from the fourth world Saami

Myrdene Anderson

277-289