Scholarship and Biography

Deals with the comparative semiotic analysis of verbal art and 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.

Honors

AB Summa Cum Laude Independent Concentration in Anthropology
Princeton University (United States, Princeton), 1971
Special Humanities Fellowship
University of Chicago (United States, Chicago) - UC, 1974-1977
Mouton d'Or Prize for best 1997 publication in Semiotica (The Pragmatic Semiotics of Culture)
International Association for Semiotic Studies, 1997-1998

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University

Education

University of Chicago
Ph.D.
University of Chicago
M.A.
Princeton University
B.A.