Anthropology of the Self

Anthropology of the Self

by Brian Morris
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/09/1994

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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.

ISBN:
9781783715244
9781783715244
Category:
Science: general issues
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-09-1994
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pluto Press

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