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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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"Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, 'Mother India', the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country's diverse communities. Soon after Mother India's emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to picture her in various media, incorporating the map of India into her visual persona. The images they produced enabled patriotic men and women in a heterogeneous population to collectively visualize India, affectively identify with it, and even become willing to surrender their lives for it. Filled with illustrations, including 100 in color, The Goddess and the Nation draws on visual studies, gender studies, and the history of cartography to offer a rigorous analysis of Mother India's appearance in painting, print, poster art, and pictures from the late nineteenth century to the present. By exploring the mutual entanglement of the scientifically mapped image of India and a (Hindu) mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial mapped image of her dominion to distinguish her from the other goddesses of India, and to guarantee her novel status as embodiment, sign, and symbol of national territory. Providing an exemplary critique of ideologies of gender and the science of cartography, Ramaswamy demonstrates that images do not merely reflect history; they actively make it."--Back cover.

Group identity --- Mother goddesses --- Postcolonialism --- Symbolic anthropology --- Political aspects --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Goddesses --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Anthropology --- Political science --- Decolonization

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Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-Strauss stated that we can never know the genesis of symbolic thought, but in this powerful new study Alan Barnard argues that we can. Continuing the line of analysis initiated in Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Genesis of Symbolic Thought applies ideas from social anthropology, old and new, to understand some of the areas also being explored in fields as diverse as archaeology, linguistics, genetics and neuroscience. Barnard aims to answer questions including: when and why did language come into being? What was the earliest religion? And what form did social organization take before humanity dispersed from the African continent? Rejecting the notion of hunter-gatherers as 'primitive', Barnard hails the great sophistication of the complex means of their linguistic and symbolic expression and places the possible origin of symbolic thought at as early as 130,000 years ago.

Linguistics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Symbolic anthropology. --- Language and languages --- Human evolution. --- Thought and thinking. --- Origin. --- Symbolic anthropology --- Human evolution --- Thought and thinking --- Origin --- Mind --- Thinking --- Thoughts --- Educational psychology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Intellect --- Logic --- Perception --- Psycholinguistics --- Self --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Language and languages - Origin

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Culture --- Ethnology --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Symbolic anthropology --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Rites et cérémonies --- Symbolisme en anthropologie --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Symbolic anthropology. --- Rites et cérémonies --- Rites and ceremonies --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Philosophy --- Anthropology --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual

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Quels sont les processus de transformation d’une forme symbolique ? Comment s’importe-t-elle et s’intègre-t-elle dans des traditions et des rituels qui lui sont étrangers ? Pierre Déléage nous livre ici une belle étude de cas. Son enquête, à la croisée de l’anthropologie et de l’histoire, a pour terrain les relations qui s’établirent, au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, entre des missionnaires catholiques et les Micmacs, groupe amérindien peuplant les côtes atlantiques de l’actuelle frontière séparant le Canada des États-Unis. Chez les Micmacs, la croix était un signe d’alliance diplomatique, guerrier et chamanique. Confrontés à cette situation, les missionnaires français usent d’un syncrétisme pédagogique pour propager la croix chrétienne. Quant aux " hiéroglyphes" micmacs, méthode d’inscription tout à fait exceptionnelle, ils se constituent à l’intersection des traditions pictographiques autochtones et de l’écriture alphabétique apportée par les missions. Cet ouvrage démontre la force d’innovation produite par les interactions entre des systèmes symboliques différents. Il décrit et explique comment l’hétérogénéité culturelle construit l’efficace des objets et des rituels, assure leur propagation et aboutit à l’invention de traditions nouvelles pour un groupe humain donné à un moment de son histoire

Missionaries --- Symbolic anthropology --- North America --- Crosses --- New France --- Micmac Indians --- Micmac language --- Symbolism in anthropology --- Anthropology --- Religious adherents --- Micmaensi language --- Micmak language --- Mihemak language --- Mikmaque language --- Mi'kmaq language --- Algonquian languages --- Mickmak Indians --- Migmac Indians --- Mi'kmaq Indians --- Mi'kmaw Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Calvaries --- Crucifixes --- Roods --- Signs and symbols --- Crucifixion --- Rites and ceremonies --- Writing --- History --- North America - New France