Categories of Self

Categories of SelfDrawing on anthropological, socio psychological, religious, and philosophical material, this book engages in a discussion of what it means to be an individual in relation to notions of selfhood, personality, and social role. This theme is explored with reference to the investigations of Louis Dumont into Hindu and other Indian ideologies, and with regard to the dominant threads of Western individualism. Clarifying and at times building upon his

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but also Smiths less well-known works

The International Self explores an age-old question in international affairs

and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement

”-Ellie Schleussner

This autobiography describes a woman's attainment of enlightenment in modern Japan

we follow the delight of travelers discovering the strangeness of the city and its variety and pleasures

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by the likes of Jane Austen

Films themselves can become a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice that enables the viewer not only to see the Buddha

including the relations between gender and work

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