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Title The social and the symbolic / editors Bernard Bel [and others]
Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (481 pages)
Series Communication processes ; v. 2
Communication processes ; v. 2.
Contents Overture : recasting "the social" as "the symbolic" / Bernard Bel [and others]. -- 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
Summary 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 traditions. The various essays highlight the links between culture studies and the use of communication in binding together a community as also to provide a voice to the unheard and the unsung. Beginning by describing the pertinence of communication to grasping the overall substance of social reality, the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Symbolic anthropology -- India
Communication and culture -- India
Cognition and culture -- India
Ethnopsychology -- India
Indic literature -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Cognition and culture
Communication and culture
Ethnopsychology
Indic literature
Manners and customs
Symbolic anthropology
Ethnopsychologie
Gesellschaftsleben
Kommunikation
Kultur
SUBJECT India -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592
Subject India
Indien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bel, Bernard.
ISBN 9788132101178
8132101170