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The social and the symbolic
- Title
- The social and the symbolic / editors Bernard Bel ... [et al.].
- Publication
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Bel, Bernard.
- Description
- 481 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Communication processes ; v. 2
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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
- JFD 09-678
- ISBN
- 9780761934462 (hard back)
- 0761934464 (hard back)
- 9788178295893 (India)
- 817829589X (India)
- LCCN
- 2006102344
- OCLC
- 77572861
- Title
- The social and the symbolic / editors Bernard Bel ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.
- Series
- Communication processes ; v. 2
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bel, Bernard.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 09-678