Concepts of Person and Self in Anthropological Work

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  • 人類学研究における人格と自己
  • ジンルイガク ケンキュウ ニオケル ジンカク ト ジコ

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This paper examines the theories of personhood in anthropological writings . Especially, we focus on a pair of notions that are person and self. These two notions have given and continue to give a framework necessary to make diverse ethnographical studies intelligible. We try to ferret out this discursive framework and to find out actual possibility of anthropological study of person and self. The author submits three phases in the development of theory as a trial, to grasp clearly the points at issue. (1) The "dual model" which opposes social person to psychological self vs. Michelle Rosaldo's critique which claims that this analytic framework is not universally applicable. (2) The interpretive approach to personhood by Geertz and Rosaldo vs. the critique against it, which argues that they in fact describe the normative cultural conception, not the experience of the self by natives. But this critique is revealed to re-introduce newly-fashioned "dual model". (3) The enterprises that try to seize selfhood as a chronically unstable productivity and to analyze cultural processes in which the responsible agency is attributed. This critical approach remains to be experimental. However, it is remarkable as an attempt to overcome both West-and-the-rest dichotomy and the essentialism of inner self.

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  • 年報人間科学

    年報人間科学 22 191-208, 2001

    大阪大学人間科学部社会学・人間学・人類学研究室

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