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Author Morris, Brian, 1936- author.

Title Anthropology of the self : the individual in cultural perspective / Brian Morris
Published London ; Boulder, Colo. : Pluto Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations
Series Anthropology, culture, and society, 1351-5403
Anthropology, culture, and society. 1351-5403
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Greek Philosophy and Concepts of the Psyche -- 3. Buddhism and the Doctrine of No Soul (Anatta) -- 4. The Hindu Conception of the Self -- 5. Taoism, Confucianism and the Chinese Self -- 6. African Philosophy and Conceptions of the Person -- 7. People as Social Beings: Conceptions of the Person in Oceania and Melanesia -- 8. Feminist Philosophy and the Theory of the Self -- 9. Conclusions
Summary Annotation This book looks at 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
Analysis Ethnopsychology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index
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Subject Ethnopsychology.
Self (Philosophy) -- Cross-cultural studies
Individualism -- Cross-cultural studies
Self-perception -- Cross-cultural studies
Religion and culture.
Self (Philosophy) -- Cross-cultural studies
Individualism -- Cross-cultural studies
Self-perception -- Cross-cultural studies
Ethnopsychology
ethnopsychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnopsychology
Individualism
Religion and culture
Self-perception
Self (Philosophy)
Kulturvergleich
Selbst
Religion
Kultur
Ethnologie
Identitätsfindung
Cultuurpsychologie.
Zelfwaarneming.
Ethnopsychologie.
Soi (philosophie) -- Études transculturelles.
Perception de soi -- Études transculturelles.
Religion et culture.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783715237
1783715235
0745308589
9780745308586