The social and the symbolic: Communication processes/
edited by Bernard Bel
- London: Sage, 2007.
- 481 p.
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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Symbolic anthropology -- India. Communication and culture -- India. Cognition and culture -- India.