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Anthropology of the Self

The Individual in Cultural Perspective

  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm

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'The author demonstrates an impressive command of a wide range of literature' American Ethnologist Western society is individualised; we feel at ease talking about individuals and we study individual behaviour through psychology and psychoanalysis. Yet anthropology teaches us that an individual approach is only one of many ways of looking at ourselves. In this wide-ranging text Morris explores the origins, doctrines and conceptions of the self in Western, Asian and African societies passing though Greek philosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscism, Tao and African philosophy and ending with contemporary feminism. Scholarly and written in a lucid style, free of jargon, this work is written from an anthropological perspective with an interdisciplinary approach. Morris emphasises the varying conceptions of the self found cross-culturally and contrasts these with the conceptions found in the Western intellectual traditions.
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  • Author

    Brian Morris

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Pluto Press

  • Published

    September 1994

  • Weight

    314g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780745308586

  • ISBN-10

    0745308589

  • Eden Code

    4579937

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