Symbolic Transformation : The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society
ISBN: 9780415488488 | 0415488486
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 1/21/2010
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This book brings together scholars from around the world to address the question of how culture and mind are related through symbols: it is through the mediation of symbols that we think, act, imagine, feel, dream and remember. Thus, to understand the structure, function and development of symbols is to understand what it means to be human.Part I of the book constructs a theoretical foundation in semiotics for thinking about symbols, and analyzes their place in speech, images, affect and evolution. Part II explores how our experience is transfo... MORE
| List of contributors | p. xi |
| Series Editor's introduction | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Introduction: What is a symbol? | |
| Semiotic foundations | p. 17 |
| introduction | p. 19 |
| The intersubjective nature of symbols | p. 23 |
| Here comes the semiotic species: Reflections on the semiotic turn in the cognitive sciences | p. 38 |
| The unconscious as symbol generato... MORE | p. 59 |
| Commentary on Part I. Are we connected to the Matrix machine? Cognition and experience figuring out what reality is | p. 75 |
| Transformations of experience | p. 87 |
| introduction | p. 89 |
| Experiencing symbols | p. 93 |
| Deep motivation and the work of culture in Christian penitential ecstasy | p. 120 |
| Remembering with others: The veracity of an experience in the symbol-formation process | p. 142 |
| Commentary on Part II. Imagination and the movement of meaning | p. 159 |
| Transformations through the life course | p. 167 |
| introduction | p. 169 |
| How does an object become symbolic? Rooting semiotic artifacts in dynamic shared experiences | p. 173 |
| Developing symbolic abilities | p. 193 |
| Scribble: The development of children's mark-making | p. 209 |
| Commentary on Part III. Some reflections on the development of symbolic activity | p. 232 |
| Transformations of identity | p. 241 |
| introduction | p. 243 |
| Symbolic group-play and social identity | p. 249 |
| Symbolic worlds in time/spaces of practice: Identities and transformations | p. 269 |
| From "stigma" and "coping" to social repositioning: A new perspective on HIV/AIDS, identity, and human rights | p. 284 |
| Diversity in sex workers' strategies for the protection of social identity: Content, context and contradiction | p. 302 |
| Commentary on Part IV. Identity and social reality: Formations and transformations | p. 323 |
| Conclusion: Opening and closing symbolic transformation | p. 330 |
| Index | p. 334 |
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