The Category of the person : anthropology, philosophy, history / edited by Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, Steven Lukes.
1985
BF697 .C288 1985 (Mapit)
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The Category of the person : anthropology, philosophy, history / edited by Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, Steven Lukes.
ISBN
0521259096
9780521259095
0521277574 (pbk.)
9780521277570 (pbk.)
9780521259095
0521277574 (pbk.)
9780521277570 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Language
English
Description
viii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
BF697 .C288 1985
Alternate Call Number
77.60
CC 6600
361.6
CC 6600
361.6
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.5/4
Summary
"The concept that people 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. Taking as their starting point a lecture on the person as a category of the human mind, given by Marcel Mauss in 1938, the contributors critically assess Mauss's speculation that notions of the person, rather than being primarily philosophical or psychological, have a complex social and ideological origin. Discussing societies ranging from ancient Greece, India, and China to modern Africa and Papua New Guinea, they provide fascinating descriptions of how these different cultures define the person. But they also raise deeper theoretical issues: What is universally constant and what is culturally variable in people's thinking about the person? How can these variations be explained? Has there been a general progressive development toward the modern Western view of the person? What is distinctive about this? How do one's notions of the person inform one's ability to comprehend alternative formulations? These questions are of compelling interest for a wide range of anthropologists, philosophers, historians, psychologists, sociologists, orientalists, and classicists. The book will appeal to any reader concerned with understanding one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence"--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-303) and index.
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Table of 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.
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.