The Return of the Windigo, Again

Part II

Abstract

This article continues the discussion of “And Some Guys Dream Bad Things”: Part I in this issue, an unreconstructed structural reading of the Algonquian windigo. Here, I take the occasion to reflect on what a specifically Peirce-inspired semiotic readings of windigo might consist of. A survivor of psychological anthropology (“culture bound syndromes”), functionalism, structuralism, cultural materialism, and even political economy, the windigo has yet to experience semiotic. I briefly introduce the two here, gesturing wildly in brief transit at a few among many possible sites of connection.