Symbolic transformation
Subtitle: the mind in movement through culture and society
By: edited by Brady Wagoner
Series: Cultural dynamics of social representation; Cultural dynamics of social representation
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780415488488
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : What is a symbol? / Brady Wagoner; title: 1. Intersubjective nature of symbols / Alex Gillespie; title: 2. Here comes the semiotic species : Reflections on the semiotic turn in the cognitive sciences / Goran Sonesson; title: 3. Unconscious as symbol generator : A psychodynamic-semiotic approach to meaning-making / Sergio Salvatore and Claudia Venuleo; title: Commentary on Part I : Are we connected to the Matrix machine? : Cognition and experience figuring out what reality is / Alberto Rosa; title: 4. Experiencing symbols / Benjamin S. Bradley; title: 5. Deep motivation and the work of culture in Christian penitential ecstasy / Gananath Obeyesekere; title: 6. Remembering with others : The veracity of an experience in the symbol-formation process / Naohisa Mori; title: Commentary on Part II : Imagination and the movement of meaning / Emily Abbey; title: 7. How does an object become symbolic? : Rooting semiotic artifact s in dynamic shared experiences / Tania Zittoun; title: 8. Developing symbolic abilities / Lorraine McCune; title: 9. Scribble : The development of children's mark-making / John Matthews; title: Commentary on Part III : Some reflections on the development of symbolic activity / Ulrich Muller and Jeremy I. M. Carpendale; title: 10. Symbolic group-play and social identity / Ditte Winther-Lindqvist; title: 11. Symbolic worlds in time/spaces of practice : Identities and transformations / Dorothy Holland; title: 12. From "stigma" and "coping" to social repositioning : A new perspective on HIV/AIDS, identity, and human rights / Steven Arrigg Koh; title: 13. Diversity in sex workers 'strategies for the protection of social identity : Content, context and contradiction / Emma-Louise Aveling, Flora Cornish and J. Ulian A. Oldmeadow; title: Commentary on Part IV : Identity and social reality : Formations and transformations / Irini Kadianaki and Hala W. Mahmoud; title: Conclusion : Opening and closing symbolic transformation / Brady Wagoner.