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1 online resource (481 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Communication processes ; v. 2
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Communication processes ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Overture : recasting "the social" as "the symbolic" / Bernard Bel [and others]. -- 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 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
This book argues that communication? an exchange of symbols? is the essence of society and that this exchange is the foundation on which the human collective is based. It explores how the collective sense of the self is defined either with reference to, or in defiance of, dominant existing traditions. The various essays highlight the links between culture studies and the use of communication in binding together a community as also to provide a voice to the unheard and the unsung. Beginning by describing the pertinence of communication to grasping the overall substance of social reality, the. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Symbolic anthropology -- India.
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Symbolic anthropology. |
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India. |
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Communication and culture -- India.
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Communication and culture. |
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Cognition and culture -- India.
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Cognition and culture. |
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Ethnopsychology -- India.
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Ethnopsychology. |
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Indic literature -- History and criticism.
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Indic literature. |
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India -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Bel, Bernard.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Social and the symbolic. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007 9780761934462 0761934464 (DLC) 2006102344 (OCoLC)77572861 |
| ISBN |
9788132101178 (electronic book) |
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8132101170 (electronic book) |
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9780761934462 (hard back) |
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0761934464 (hard back) |
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9788178295893 (India) |
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817829589X (India) |
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