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A Chuukese Theory of Personhood: The Concepts Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit on the Islands of Chuuk (Micronesia) - An Ethnolinguistic Study

A Chuukese Theory of Personhood: The Concepts Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit on the Islands of Chuuk (Micronesia) - An Ethnolinguistic Study

Käser, Lothar

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AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 3957761166
ISBN13: 9783957761163
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Dec 31 2016
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

People in non-western societies conceive of personhood and personality in ways which overlap with but are not at all identical with western (European, American) conceptions. In their desire to comprehend the concept of man belonging to different societies and cultures ethnographers mostly started from the features defining their own concept of man, including particularly their own concept of the soul, and looked for comparable elements in the culture they studied. In this way they did indeed find material which when pieced together produced something which had similarities with their own concept of man. But they were for the most part blind to other features which defined over and above that notions of body, soul, mind and spirit in the cultural setting they studied. Moreover their knowledge of the language was limited. Often the result was a description containing serious gaps, possibly only contributing non-essentials, falsely evaluating essentials, and in extreme cases leading to the conclusion that the foreign concept of body, soul, mind and spirit was somehow identical with that of Europe and the West.

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