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Personhood : an Examination of the History and Use of an Anthropological Concept.
""A comprehensive analysis of how the concept of personhood has been used by anthropologists and how it should be used in the future ... This book is a very valuable contribution to the study of the history of anthropological thought, as well as a tremendously useful guide for scholars and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston :
The Edwin Mellen Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Vanessa L. Fong
- Context
- Analytic categories used in the study of personhood
- An early history of the concept of personhood (1930s-1980s)
- A later history of the concept of personhood (1980s-2000s)
- Towards a new definition of personhood
- The confusion and conflation of personhood with other salient concepts in anthropology
- Conclusions
- the myth of the lazy native, the peculiar western self and the dangers of culturally loaded concepts
- Appendices: A.A brief ethnographic account of the Bulusu' of East Kalimantan, Indonesia and the Rungus of Sabah, Malaysia
- B. Named developmental stages among the Bulusu' and the Rungus Momogun
- C. Examples of the use of personhood in newspapers and novels
- D. Definitions of personhood found in popular literature, in the psychological literature and in the anthropological literature
- E. Definitions of personhood from the Oxford English dictionary online
- F. Definitions of person found in the anthropological literature
- G. Definitions of the self found in the anthropological literature
- H. Definitions of identity found in the psychological and anthropological literature.