1st Edition
Self Consciousness An Alternative Anthropology of Identity
By Anthony Cohen
Copyright 1994
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Anthony P. Cohen
