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Title:

SELF CONSCIOUSNESS
AN ALTERNATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY OF IDENTITY

By:

Anthony Cohen

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Paperback

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0415083249

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9780415083249

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

6 October, 1994

Pages:

230

Description:

Establishes the importance of the individual, emphasizing the need to understand individuals' awareness of themselves and their creation of their own social contexts and conditions. This work proposes that anthropological fields should be approached from the self upwards.

Synopsis:

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 element. By acknowledging the individual's self awareness as author of their own social conduct and of the social forms in which they participate, this informs social and cultural processes rather than the individual being passively modelled by them.

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