The social and the symbolic: Communication processes/
The social and the symbolic: Communication processes/
edited by Bernard Bel
- London: Sage, 2007.
- 481 p.
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 --
The Minas : seeking a place in history / Nandini Sinha Kapur --
Vadar narratives : dramatic reappropriation of a myth / Datta Shinde --
Mang narratives : semantic reappropriation of a myth / Sanjay Jogdanda --
Bhakti : a faith for rehabilitation / Guy Poitevin and Hema Rairkar --
The communicating goddess of the artisans / Jan Brouwer --
The Mother Earth of the Mawal peasant : testimonies from Baban Khandbhor and Prabhakar Ghare --
Vadar communities : traditional skills in changing times / Datta Shinde --
Parit communities : occupation and survival / Suresh Kokate --
The slum dwellers of Chennai : indigenous health practices / S.A. Samy --
The Vaidu : traditional practices and social status / Chandrakant Kokate --
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
978071934462
Symbolic anthropology -- India.
Communication and culture -- India.
Cognition and culture -- India.
306.40954 / BEL/T
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 --
The Minas : seeking a place in history / Nandini Sinha Kapur --
Vadar narratives : dramatic reappropriation of a myth / Datta Shinde --
Mang narratives : semantic reappropriation of a myth / Sanjay Jogdanda --
Bhakti : a faith for rehabilitation / Guy Poitevin and Hema Rairkar --
The communicating goddess of the artisans / Jan Brouwer --
The Mother Earth of the Mawal peasant : testimonies from Baban Khandbhor and Prabhakar Ghare --
Vadar communities : traditional skills in changing times / Datta Shinde --
Parit communities : occupation and survival / Suresh Kokate --
The slum dwellers of Chennai : indigenous health practices / S.A. Samy --
The Vaidu : traditional practices and social status / Chandrakant Kokate --
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
978071934462
Symbolic anthropology -- India.
Communication and culture -- India.
Cognition and culture -- India.
306.40954 / BEL/T