Symbolic Transformations: The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society - Couverture rigide

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9780415488488: Symbolic Transformations: The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society
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ISBN 10 : 0415488486 ISBN 13 : 9780415488488
Editeur : Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

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 transformed through symbols: why we are moved by a movie or political speech, how bread and wine can taste like Christ's body and blood, and why our memories are forever changing. Part III focuses on symbols in the human life-course, particularly in connection with play, language and art. And lastly, Part IV explores how identities, such as being a sex-worker or HIV-positive, are constituted in social relationships through society's symbols.

This broad interdisciplinary synthesis on the problem of symbols is an essential resource for anyone studying culture in mind, including advanced students in psychology, semiotics, anthropology, communications and philosophy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brady Wagoner is a cultural psychologist interested in constructive memory, communication, existentialism, pragmatism and the history and philosophy of psychology. He is on the editorial board of Culture and Psychology, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science and the International Journal of Dialogical Science. In addition, he is the co-founding editor of Psychology and Society and co-creator of the F. C. Bartlett Internet Archive.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415488486
ISBN 13 
9780415488488
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
360
Éditeur
Wagoner Brady
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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