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This book is an exploration of the potential of the ethnosymbolic approach to nation and identity to act as an instrumental tool for research into the mechanisms of identity-building. Using insights and data from Bulgarian history and culture, it views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a modern process intimately affected by circumstances which prevailed in nineteenth-century Bulgarian society, and also as a process which, for its structural and psychological prerequisites, drew upon and reworked various specific features and peculiarities of an available but always malleable

National characteristics, Bulgarian. --- Ethnosociology. --- Symbolic anthropology. --- Bulgarian national characteristics --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Anthropology --- Ethno-sociology --- Ethnosociological method --- Ethnology --- Sociology

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An ethnographic portrait of the human mind, using case studies from both western and non-western societies, this book argues that "cultural models" are necessary to the functioning of the human mind. The text explores the cognitive world of culture in the ongoing production of meaning everyday.

Ethnopsychology. --- Cognition and culture. --- Social perception. --- Symbolic anthropology. --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Anthropology --- Cognition, Social --- Interpersonal perception --- Social cognition --- Interpersonal relations --- Perception --- Social cognitive theory --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics

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In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the contributions reveal that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence, while the objects created to memorialize a loss also have important cultural implications. Covering everything from organ donation, to funerary rituals, to prisoners of war, The Anthropology of Absence is written at an important intersection of archaeological and anthropological study. Divided into three sections, this volume uses the "presence" of absence to compare cultural perceptions of: material qualities and created memory, the mind/body connection, temporality, and death. This rich text provides a strong theoretical framework for anthropologists and archaeologists studying material culture.

Lost articles. --- Material culture. --- Memorials. --- Symbolic anthropology. --- Material culture --- Lost articles --- Memorials --- Symbolic anthropology --- Anthropology --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Change --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Social sciences. --- Cultural heritage. --- Anthropology. --- Social Sciences. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Human beings --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences