The social and the symbolic

This book argues that communication ? an exchange of symbols ? is the essence of society and that this exchange is the foundation on which the human collective is based. It explores how the collective sense of the self is defined either with reference to, or in defiance of, dominant existing traditi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bel, Bernard (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications 2007.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Communication processes ; v. 2.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overture : recasting "the social" as "the symbolic" / Bernard Bel ... [et al.].
  • Negotiating modernity with symbolic resources / Guy Poitevin
  • Symbolic facets of medical power / Bernard Bel
  • Fonts of self-identity. Introduction : modes of self-presentation / Editors Avenue of expression The Minas : seeking a place in history / Nandini Sinha Kapur
  • Quests for assertion. Vaḍār narratives : dramatic reappropriation of a myth / Datta Shinde ; Māṇg narratives : semantic reappropriation of a myth / Sanjay Jogdanda
  • Bhakti : a faith for rehabilitation / Guy Poitevin and Hema Rairkar
  • Grounds of work relations, introduction : faculties of correlation / Editors Integrative links of "the traditional" : The communicating goddess of the artisans / Jan Brouwer
  • The Mother Earth of the Mawal peasant / testimonies from Baban Khandbhor and Prabhakar Ghare
  • Disruptive challenges of "the modern," Vaḍār communities, traditional skills in changing times / Datta Shinde
  • Parīṭ communities : occupation and survival / Suresh Kokate
  • Bonds of health practices, introduction : symbolic forms and signs / Guy Poitevin
  • Between yesterday and today : The slum dwellers of Chennai : indigenous health practices / S.A. Samy
  • The Vaidu : traditional practices and social status / Chandrakant Kokate
  • Inheritance of knowledge : birth attendants : between the devil and the deep blue sea / Bernard Bel and Andréine Bel
  • Popular culture and childbirth : perceptions and practices in rural Rajasthan / Tulsi Patel
  • Midwives : a tradition on the move in Maharashtra / Hema Rairkar
  • In lieu of an epilogue / Editors.