MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02285cam a22003258a 4500
001 2006102344
003 DLC
005 20070321083810.0
008 061219s2007 ii b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006102344
020 $a9780761934462 (hard back)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aGN635.I4$bS599 2007
082 00 $a306.40954$222
245 04 $aThe social and the symbolic /$ceditors Bernard Bel ... [et al.].
260 $aNew Delhi ;$aThousand Oaks, Calif. :$bSAGE Publications,$c2007.
263 $a0701
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aCommunication processes ;$vv. 2
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOverture : 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.
650 0 $aSymbolic anthropology$zIndia.
650 0 $aCommunication and culture$zIndia.
650 0 $aCognition and culture$zIndia.
650 0 $aEthnopsychology$zIndia.
651 0 $aIndic literature$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aIndia$xSocial life and customs.
700 1 $aBel, Bernard.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006102344.html