Symbolic Transformation (eBook, ePUB)

The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society
Redaktion: Wagoner, Brady

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135150891
• Artikelnr.: 47890457

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

J. Valsiner
Series Editor's Introduction. B. Wagoner
Introduction: What is a Symbol? Part 1. Semiotic Foundations. A. Gillespie
The Intersubjective Nature of Symbols. G. Sonesson
Here Comes the Semiotic Species: Reflections on the Semiotic Turn in the Cognitive Sciences. S. Salvatore
C. Venuleo
The Unconscious as Symbol Generator: A Psychodynamic-Semiotic Approach to Meaning Making. A. Rosa
Commentary on Part 1: Are We Connected to the Matrix Machine? Cognition and Experience Figuring out What Reality is. Part 2. Transformations of Experience. B. Bradley
Experiencing Symbols. G. Obeyesekere
Deep Motivation and the Work of Culture in Christian Penitential Ecstasy. N. Mori
Remembering with Others: The Veracity of an Experience in the Symbol Formation Process. E. Abbey
Commentary on Part 2: Imagination and the Movement of Meaning. Part 3. Transformations through the Life Course. T. Zittoun
How Does an Object Become Symbolic? Rooting Semiotic Artifacts in Dynamic Shared Experiences. L. McCune
Developing Symbolic Abilities. J. Matthews
Scribble: The Development of Children's Mark Making. U. Müller
J. Carpendale
Commentary on Part 3: Some Reflections on the Development of Symbolic Abilities. Part 4. Transformations of Identity. D. Winther-Lindqvist
Symbolic Group Play and Social Identity. D. Holland
Symbolic Worlds in Time/Spaces of Practice: Identities and Transformations. S. Arrigg Koh
From Stigma and Coping to Social Repositioning: A New Perspective on HIV/AIDS
Identity and Human Rights. E. Aveling
F. Cornish
J. Oldmeadow
Diversity in Sex Workers' Strategies for the Protection of Social Identity: Content
Context and Contradiction. I. Kadianaki
H. Mahmoud
Commentary on Part 4: Identity and Social Reality: Formations and Transformations. B. Wagoner
Conclusion: Opening and Closing Symbolic Transformation.