The Category of the person : anthropology, philosophy, history /

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Imprint:	Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Description:	viii, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mauss, Marcel, -- 1872-1950 Mauss, Marcel, -- 1872-1950. Self Self -- Cross-cultural studies. Individualism Individualism -- Cross-cultural studies. Individualism. Self. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/702745

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Other authors / contributors:	Carrithers, Michael. Collins, Steven, 1951- Lukes, Steven.
ISBN:	0521259096 0521277574 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes index. Bibliography: p. [302]-303.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. A category of the human mind: the notion of person; the notion of self
2. The category of the person: a reading of Mauss's last essay
3. Categories, concepts or predicaments? Remarks on Mauss's use of philosophical terminology
4. Marcel Mauss and the quest for the person in Greek biography and autobiography
5. A modified view of our origins: the Christian beginnings of modern individualism
6. Person and individual: some anthropological reflections
7. Self: public, provate. Some African representations
8. Between the earth and heaven: conceptions of the self in China
9. Purity and power among the Brahmans of Kashmir
10. Of masks and men
11. An alternative social history of the self
12. The person
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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