Selfhood and Recognition: Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality(Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific)

Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other. Touch