Anthropology of the Self: The Individual in Cultural Perspective (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Anthropology of the Self: The Individual in Cultural Perspective (Anthropology, Culture and Society) by Morris, Brian. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780745308586.

This book looks at the self in Western, Asian and African societies passing though Greek philosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscism, Tao and African philosophy and ending with contemporary feminism. Scholarly and written in a lucid style, free of jargon, this work is written from an anthropological perspective with an interdisciplinary approach. Morris emphasises the varying conceptions of the self found cross-culturally and contrasts these with the conceptions found in the Western intellectual traditions.