ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SELF

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is concerned with how cultural and biological processes interact to shape human experience.

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ANTHROPOLOGY

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stated that anthropology encroaches on the territory of the sciences as well as the humanities, and transcends the conventional boundaries of both while addressing questions to the distant past and the pressing present – perhaps with implications for the future.

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James L. Peacock (1986)

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contributes in understanding of the nature of self through its wide collection of ethnographic investigations which have discussed that cultural variation may affect one’s mental states, language, and behavior (Triandis, 1989).

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Anthropology

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Culture provides patterns of ?

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ways of life.

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Social anthropology used “identity” as ?

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“ethnic identity.”

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Two concepts of self in different societies:
autonomous and distinct individual.
contingent on a situation or social setting.

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Egocentric
Sociocentric

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identifies three-phased rite of passage

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Arnold van Gennep

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People construct their social identities through?. It refers to the features of a person’s identity that he or she chooses to emphasize in constructing a social self.

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identity toolbox

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detachment from the former identity to another.

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Separation

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one has left one identity, but has not yet entered the next.

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Liminal

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the changes are incorporated into a new identity by elaborate rituals and ceremony.

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Incorporation

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coined the term identity struggles and defined as a characterize interaction in which there is a discrepancy between the identity a person claims to possess and the identity attributed to that person by others.

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Anthony Wallace and Raymond Fogelson

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suggest that in order to maintain a relatively stable and coherent self, the members of the multicultural society have no choice but to internalize divergent cultural models and should reject or suppress identifications that may conflict with other self-representations.

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Cognitive anthropologists

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suggests that people should overcome many obstacles such as traditionally established habits and parental imposed self-image to attain self-identification.

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Golubovic (2011)

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is the continuous reconstitution of self in response to internal and external stimuli.

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Katherine Ewing’s Illusion of Wholeness

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defined culture as “a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate perpetuate and develop their knowledge about the attitudes towards life.”

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Clifford Geertz

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emphasized that “without men, no culture; without culture, no men.”

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Geertz