Material’naia semiotika i etnografiia material’noi kul’tury

Abstract

The article attempts to find answers to the question of what is behind the so called ontological turn in social sciences and what consequences it has for material culture studies in Russian anthropology. The author juxtaposes the material semiotics of Latour and his followers, and the semiotic approach to research on material culture as expounded in the work of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics.