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Additional authors

1. Bel, Bernard.

Description

1. 481 p.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Communication processes ; v. 2

Subject

1. Symbolic anthropology > India
2. Indic literature > History and criticism
3. Ethnopsychology > India
4. Communication and culture > India
5. Cognition and culture > India
6. India > Social life and customs

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFD 09-678

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. The social and the symbolic / editors Bernard Bel ... [et al.].

Imprint

1. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.

Series

1. Communication processes ; v. 2

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

Added author

1. Bel, Bernard.

LCCN

1. 2006102344

ISBN

1. 9780761934462 (hard back)
2. 0761934464 (hard back)
3. 9788178295893 (India)
4. 817829589X (India)

Research call number

1. JFD 09-678