Description:
Symbolic Transformations brings together scholars in the social sciences from around the world, to address the question of how mind and culture are related through symbols.
Review Quotes:
"This is a timely and important collection of work discussing various aspects of symbolic transformation. It brings together a variety of authors from different disciplines, including social, cultural and developmental psychology, semiotics and anthropology. As a result of this, readers will find a depth and diversity in the chapters that both challenges and enriches their existing ideas about symbols and their importance and functions in our lives, our development and our identities." - Juliet Foster, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK
"Contributors to this book present original and scholarly perspectives inviting readers to engage their thoughts with symbols and their manifold transformations throughout life, in daily experience and identities. Fascinating and provocative in discussing complex topics, this volume offers a wide-ranging and integrative set of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the dynamics of mind and culture through symbols and their vicissitudes." - Ivana Markova, University of Stirling, UK