A Peircean Analysis of Bucrania at Catalhoyuk

Summary

This paper attempts an analysis of the bucrania at Catalhoyuk from the perspective of Peirce's semiotic. The spatial situation of bucrania is one of entanglement. Peirce's triadic relation emphasizes the being-in-the-world-ness of the sign, and his synechism, the continuum of signs. Using this multidirectionality, the indexical nature of the skulls is explored, including the immediate contiguity of man and beast, the various interpretants and intersubjective effects of structural space, and the distribution of agency. Spatial perception, phenomenology of place, and capacity for Firstness, are taken as valid referants of inference and abductive suggestion.

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