Search Results for: Anthropology And The Individual

Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demo

Winner of the 2019 Society for Anthropological Sciences Book Prize This book engages with the issue of how culture is incorporated into individuals' lives, a qu

Exploring the origins, doctrines and conceptions of the self.

Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate

The concept that people have of themselves as a 'person' is one of the most intimate notions that they hold. Yet the way in which the category of the person is