| Description |
viii, 309 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
A category of the human mind / Marcel Mauss -- The category of the person / N.J. Allen -- Categories, concepts, or predicaments? / Steven Collins -- Marcel Mauss and the quest for the person in Greek biography and autobiography / A. Momigliano -- A modified view of our origins / Louis Dumont -- Person and individual / J.S. La Fontaine -- Self: public, private, some African representations / Godfrey Lienhardt -- Between the earth and heaven / Mark Elvin -- Purity and power among the Brahmans of Kashmir / Alexis Sanderson -- Of masks and men / Martin Hollis -- An alternative social history of the self / Michael Carrithers -- The person / Charles Taylor |
| Summary |
The concept that peope have of themselves as a "person" is one of the most intimate notions that they hold. Yet the way in which the category of the person is conceived varies over time and space. In this volume, anthropologists, philosophers, and historians examine the notion of the person in different cultures, past and present. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Analysis |
Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950 |
|
Self - Sociological perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [302]-303 |
| Subject |
Mauss, Marcel, 1872-1950.
|
|
Individualism.
|
|
Self -- Cross-cultural studies.
|
|
Individualism -- Cross-cultural studies.
|
|
Self.
|
|
Ego [MESH]
|
|
Ego.
|
|
Individuality [MESH]
|
|
Individuality.
|
|
Ego.
|
|
Individuality.
|
| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
|
| Author |
Carrithers, Michael.
|
|
Collins, Steven, 1951-2018.
|
|
Lukes, Steven.
|
| LC no. |
84023288 |
| ISBN |
0521259096 |
|
0521277574 (paperback) |
|
