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    PERSPECTIVE:

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    The Self
    The Self & the Person in
    Contemporary Anthropology

    The Anthropological Self


    ANTHROPOLOGY

    •What is anthropology?
    •What is its view about the concept
    of “self”?
    ANTHROPOLOGY
    • The study of people, past and present.
    • Focuses on understanding the human
    condition in its cultural aspect.
    • Concerned with understanding how
    humans evolved and how they differ
    from one another
    A Unit but Unitary
    • Katherine Ewing (1990)
    • SELF
    •Encompasses the physical
    organism, possessing
    psychological functioning and
    social attributes.
    •Implicitly and explicitly existing in
    the mind comprised of
    psychological, biological and
    cultural processes.
    EXPLICIT & IMPLICIT
    • Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux (2002)
    • Explicit
    •Aspect of the self that you are consciously
    aware of
    • Implicit
    •Aspect of the self that is not immediately
    available to the consciousness
    • Concept is traced to Dr. Sigmund
    Freud’s Levels of Consciousness
    JOSEPH LEDOUX
    • LeDoux’s view: self was
    developed by being framed,
    maintained, and affected
    biologically, mentally, and
    socially.
    • The SELF
    • not static
    • Added to and subtracted from
    by genetic maturation,
    learning, forgetting, stress,
    ageing, and disease.
    SELF AS REPRESENTATION
    •Ewing asserted (1989) that
    SELF is illusory.
    •People construct a series of
    self-representations
    •Based on selected cultural
    concepts of person and selected
    chains of personal memories.
    SELF AS REPRESENTATION
    • Self-concept is experienced as a whole and
    continuous, with own history and memories
    that emerge in a specific context to be replaced
    by another self-representation when the
    context changes.”
    • SR => culturally shaped “self” concepts that
    one applies to oneself.
    •Mental entities that are supposed to represent the
    self.
    The Self:
    Embedded in
    Culture
    The Anthropological Self
    DEFINED BY CULTURE
    • How individuals see themselves
    • How they relate to other people
    • How they relate to the environment
    • If the “self” is a product of society, then how
    the self has developed is bound to cultural
    differences.
    • Self is culturally shaped and infinitely variable.
    • “Cultural traditions and social practices
    regulate, express, and transform the human
    psyche
    CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
    •Independent Construct
    •Interdependent Constructs
    •Construal => interpretation of
    the meaning of something;
    hence the meaning of “self.”
    CONSTRUALS
    • INDEPENDENT CONSTRUCT
    •Individualistic culture, North America and
    Europe.
    •Individualistic culture => self => separate
    and distinct => internal attributes or traits,
    skills and values.
    • INTERDEPENDENT CONSTRUCT
    •Typical of the collectivist culture => East
    Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau,
    Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and
    Taiwan)
    CULTURE
    INFLUENCE ON SELF
    CULTURE
    •Has an influence on how
    you view the following:
    •Relationships
    •Personality Traits
    •Achievement
    •Expressing Emotions
    RELATIONSHIPS
    •Culture has an influence => enter
    into & maintain relationships
    •Voluntary or duty-based
    •Western society => choice of
    marrying a person
    •Eastern society => arranged
    marriage
    PERSONALITY TRAITS
    •How you value traits
    •How you feel about relying
    on others
    VALUES DARK SIDE LEADERSHIP
    Generosity Dishonesty Dominance
    Integrity Disloyalty Confidence
    Loyalty Unkindness Persuasiveness
    Devotion Meanness Ambitiousness
    Loving Rudeness Bossy
    Kindness Disrespectfulness Resourcefulness
    Sincerity Impatience Decisiveness
    Self-control Greed Charisma
    Peacefulness Abrasiveness Authority
    Faithfulness Pessimism Enthusiasm
    Patience Cruelty Boldness
    Determination Unmercifulness Proactive
    Persistance Narcissism
    Adventurous Obnoxious
    Fairness Malicious
    Cooperation Pettyness
    Tolerance Quarrelsome
    Optimism Caustic
    Spirituality Selfishness
    Unforgiving
    ACHIEVEMENT
    •How you define
    success and whether
    you value certain types
    of individual and group
    achievements
    EXPRESSING EMOTIONS
    •Culture influences => what
    will affect you emotionally
    •How you express yourself
    •Showing your feelings in
    public or keeping it private
    END
    The Anthropological Self
    REFERENCE
    • Otig, V. S., Gallinero, W. B., Bataga, N. U., Salado, F. B., &
    Visande, J. C. (2018). A Holistic Approach in Understanding
    the Self A Workbook-Textbook for College Students. Mutya
    Publishing House, Inc.

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