Anthropology of the Self
The Individual in Cultural Perspective
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 interdisc…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78371-524-4
- EAN: 9781783715244
- Produktnummer: 24016172
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 676 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Brian Morris is the author of several books on anthropology and natural history including Anthropological Studies of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 1987) and Western Conceptions of the Individual (Berg 1991). He teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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