Anthropology of the Self: The Individual in Cultural Perspective

by Brian Morris

2021-01-10 07:32:53

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... Read more
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. Less

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File size8.54 X 5.6 X 0.6 in
Publication date June 1, 1995
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780745308586
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