Rhetorics of Self-Making - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520087984 ISBN 13 : 9780520087989

Editeur : University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to literature. First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions cover a broad range of topics - from the development of the eccentric self to the ritual circumcision of Jewish males.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Debbora Battaglia, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, is the author of On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society (1990).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520087984
• ISBN 13: 9780520087989
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Éditeur: Battaglia Debbora
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible