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Anthropology of the Self

Brian Morris
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  • ISBN 9780745308586
  • Weight: 311g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Sep 1994
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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 different Western intellectual traditions.
About Brian Morris
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 is emeritus professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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