Introduction : What is a symbol? / Brady Wagoner
1. Intersubjective nature of symbols / Alex Gillespie
2. Here comes the semiotic species : Reflections on the semiotic turn in the cognitive sciences / Goran Sonesson
3. Unconscious as symbol generator : A psychodynamic-semiotic approach to meaning-making / Sergio Salvatore and Claudia Venuleo
Commentary on Part I : Are we connected to the Matrix machine? : Cognition and experience figuring out what reality is / Alberto Rosa
4. Experiencing symbols / Benjamin S. Bradley
5. Deep motivation and the work of culture in Christian penitential ecstasy / Gananath Obeyesekere
6. Remembering with others : The veracity of an experience in the symbol-formation process / Naohisa Mori
Commentary on Part II : Imagination and the movement of meaning / Emily Abbey
7. How does an object become symbolic? : Rooting semiotic artifact s in dynamic shared experiences / Tania Zittoun
8. Developing symbolic abilities / Lorraine McCune
9. Scribble : The development of children's mark-making / John Matthews
Commentary on Part III : Some reflections on the development of symbolic activity / Ulrich Muller and Jeremy I. M. Carpendale
10. Symbolic group-play and social identity / Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
11. Symbolic worlds in time/spaces of practice : Identities and transformations / Dorothy Holland
12. From "stigma" and "coping" to social repositioning : A new perspective on HIV/AIDS, identity, and human rights / Steven Arrigg Koh
13. Diversity in sex workers 'strategies for the protection of social identity : Content, context and contradiction / Emma-Louise Aveling, Flora Cornish and J. Ulian A. Oldmeadow
Commentary on Part IV : Identity and social reality : Formations and transformations / Irini Kadianaki and Hala W. Mahmoud
Conclusion : Opening and closing symbolic transformation / Brady Wagoner.
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Symbolic transformation : the mind in movement through culture and society. ISBN 9780415488488. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
