Greg Urban is an American anthropologist who specializes in indigenous peoples of

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and on general theoretical problems in linguistic and cultural anthropology. Much of his work has been oriented toward the development of a discourse-centered theory of culture. Urban is the Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology at the

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. He received his Ph.D. from the

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, where he studied with

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Bibliography

* Urban, Greg, ed. (2014) ''Corporations and Citizenship.'' Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. * Urban, Greg, and Kyung-Nan Koh (2013) "Ethnographic Research on Modern Business Corporations". ''Annual Review of Anthropology'' 42 (1):139-158. * Urban, Greg (2010) "A Method for Measuring the Motion of Culture". ''American Anthropologist'' 112 (1):122-139. * Urban, Greg, Ernest Baskin, and Kyung-Nan Koh (2007) "“No Carry-Over Parts”: Corporations and the Metaculture of Newness". ''Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society'' 32 (1):5-19. * Urban, Greg (2006) "Metasemiosis and Metapragmatics". In ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'', edited by Keith Brown, 88–91. Oxford: Pergamon Press. * Urban, Greg (2006) "Power as the Transmission of Culture". In ''New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations'', edited by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. * Urban, Greg (2002) "Metasignaling and Language Origins". ''American Anthropologist'' 104 (1):233-246. * Urban, Greg (2001) ''Metaculture: How Culture Moves through the World.'' Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. * Urban, Greg, and Kristin M. Smith (1998) "The Sunny Tropics of 'Dialogue'?" ''Semiotica'' 121 (3/4):263-281. * Urban, Greg (1996) ''Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect.'' Austin: University of Texas Press. * Silverstein, Michael, and Greg Urban, eds. (1996) ''Natural Histories of Discourse.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press. * Urban, Greg (1996) "Entextualization, Replication, and Power". In ''Natural Histories of Discourse'', edited by Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban, 21–44. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. * Urban, Greg (1993) "The Represented Functions of Speech in Shokleng Myth". In ''Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics'', edited by John A. Lucy, 241–259. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Urban, Greg, and Joel Sherzer, eds. (1991) ''Nation-states and Indians in Latin America.'' Austin: University of Texas Press. * Lee, Benjamin, and Greg Urban, eds. (1989) ''Semiotics, Self, and Society.'' Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. * Urban, Greg (1988) "Ritual wailing in Amerindian Brazil". ''American Anthropologist'' 90 (2):385-400. * Urban, Greg (1986) "Linguistic Consciousness and Allophonic Variation: A Semiotic Perspective". ''Semiotica'' 61 (1–2):33-60. * Urban, Greg (1985) "The Semiotics of Two Speech Styles in Shokleng". In ''Semiotic Mediation'', edited by Elizabeth Mertz and Richard J. Parmentier, 311–329. New York: Academic Press. * Urban, Greg (1985) "Ergativity and Accusativity in Shokleng (Gê)". ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 51 (2):164-187. * Urban, Greg (1984) "Speech about Speech in Speech about Action". ''The Journal of American Folklore'' 97 (385):310-328. * Urban, Greg (1981) "Agent- and Patient-Centricity in Myth". ''The Journal of American Folklore'' 94 (373):323-344.

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