TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bel, Bernard, ed.
TI  - The social and the symbolic: Communication processes
SN  - 978071934462
U1  - 306.40954 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Sage
KW  - Symbolic anthropology -- India
KW  - Communication and culture -- India
KW  - Cognition and culture -- India
N1  - 	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
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