The social and the symbolic
By: editors Bernard Bel ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bel, Bernard.
Series: Communication processes -- v. 2
Publisher: SAGE Publications; SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780761934462
Subjects: Symbolic anthropology -- India; Communication and culture -- India; Cognition and culture -- India; Ethnopsychology -- India; Indic literature -- History and criticism; India -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overture : recasting "the social" as "the symbolic" / Bernard Bel ... [et al.]; title: Negotiating modernity with symbolic resources / Guy Poitevin; title: Symbolic facets of medical power / Bernard Bel; title: The Minas : seeking a place in history / Nandini Sinha Kapur; title: Vadar narratives : dramatic reappropriation of a myth / Datta Shinde; title: Mang narratives : semantic reappropriation of a myth / Sanjay Jogdanda; title: Bhakti : a faith for rehabilitation / Guy Poitevin and Hema Rairkar; title: The communicating goddess of the artisans / Jan Brouwer; title: The Mother Earth of the Mawal peasant : testimonies from Baban Khandbhor and Prabhakar Ghare; title: Vadar communities : traditional skills in changing times / Datta Shinde; title: Parit communities : occupation and survival / Suresh Kokate; title: The slum dwellers of Chennai : indigenous health practices / S.A. Samy; title: The Vaidu : traditional practices and social status / Chandrakant Kokate; title: Birth attendants : between the devil and the deep blue sea / Bernard Bel and Andréine Bel; title: Popular culture and childbirth : perceptions and practices in rural Rajasthan / Tulsi Patel; title: Midwives : a tradition on the move in Maharashtra / Hema Rairkar; title: In lieu of an epilogue.