This document discusses the concept of self and person in contemporary anthropology. It defines anthropology as the study of human culture and condition. The self is described as having both implicit and explicit aspects, with the implicit self being what one is consciously aware of and the explicit being not immediately available to consciousness. The document discusses how the self is constructed through cultural influences and is not static, changing with factors like learning, age, and disease. Culture shapes the self in divergent ways, with individualistic cultures representing the self as separate while collectivist cultures stress the connection between individuals and communities.

1. THE SELF AND PERSON IN
CONTEMPORARY
ANTHROPOLOGY & SELF
EMBEDDED CULTURE
PRESENTED BY:
Almeda, Alecia Mae
Balt, Abdul Azis
Bashier, Mayrah

2. WHAT IS
ANTHROPOLOGY?
 Anthropology is the study of
people, past and present.
 The term anthropology comes
from the Greek word Anthropos
which means “man or human”
and logos which means “the
study of.”
 It focusses on understanding the
human condition in its cultural
aspect.
 Concerned with understanding

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“A UNIT BUT UNITARY”

4. KATHERINE
EWING (1990) –
Anthologist and Professor
“Physical organism
possessing psychological
functioning and social
attributes"
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CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY
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5. TWO ASPECTS OF SELF:
IMPLICIT
 Self that you are consciously
aware of.
EXPLICIT
 Self that is not immediately
available to the consciousness.
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CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY
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JOSEPH DELOUX
(2002) - Neuroscientist

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CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY
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“The self is not static, it is added to
and subtracted from by the genetic
maturation, learning, forgetting,
stress, ageing and disease.”

7. SELF AS REPRESENTATION
 People construct a series of self-representation
that are based on the selected cultural concepts of
person and selected ‘chains’ of personal
memories. Each self-concept is experienced as a
whole and continuous, with it’s own history and
memories that emerge in a specific context to be
replaced by another self-representation when the
context changes.
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CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY
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Ewing (1989) asserted that self is
illusory

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THE SELF EMBEDDED
CULTURE
“Cultural traditions and social practices
regulate, express and transform the
human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity
for humankind than in ethnic divergences in
mind, self and emotion”

9. INDEPENDENT CONSTRUCT (INDIVIDUALISTIC
CULTURE)
 Represents the self as separate, unique-skills and
traits.
INTERDEPENDENT CONSTRUCT (COLLECTIVIST
CULTURE)
 Stressing the essential connection between the
individual and community.
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HOW THE SELF IS CONTRUCTED:

10. Catherine Raeff (2010)
 Relationships
 Personality Traits
 Achievements
 Expressing Emotions
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11. This is the end of our
presentation….
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