Origins of Self : : an anthropological perspective / / Martin P. J. Edwardes.
The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society. It considers the genetic and cultural origins of self, the role that self plays in socialisation and language, and the types of self we generate in our individual journeys...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : UCL Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 230 pages) :; illustrations (black and white) |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: down the rabbit-hole
- What Is a self?
- Where did self come from?
- The modelled self
- How do we become selves?
- Where did social calculus come from?
- The language of self
- Metaphors of self
- What Is a self? There and back again
- Epilogue: snarks or boojums?.