CiNii 図書 - Self consciousness : an alternative anthropology of identity

This text establishes the importance of the individual, emphasizing the need to understand individuals' awareness of themselves and their creation of their own social contexts and conditions. Drawing comparatively on a wide range of ethnographic studies and areas of anthropology from around the world, it proposes that anthropological fields, such as culture, society and social relations should be approached from the self upwards. The work demonstrates how social processes such as ritual symbolism, organization, rhetoric, socialization, marriage, naming, ethnicity and cultural nationalism are varied according to the needs of the creative self, and how emphasizing attention to the particular, the individual, and to self consciousness can both inform and discipline the larger picture.

巻冊次: : pbk ISBN 9780415083249

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Traditionally the self and the individual have been treated as micro-versions of larger social entities by the social sciences in general, and by anthropology in particular. In Self Consciousness, Cohen examines this treatment of the self, arguing that this practice has resulted in the misunderstanding of social aggregates precisely because the individual has been ignored as a constituent element. By acknowledging the individual's self awareness as author of their own social conduct and of the social forms in which they participate, this informs social and cultural processes rather than the individual being passively modelled by them.

Chapter 1 The neglected self
Chapter 2 The creative self
Chapter 3 Initiating the self into society
Chapter 4 Social transformations of the self
Chapter 5 The primacy of the self?
Chapter 6 The thinking self
Chapter 7 Individualism, individuality, selfhood

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