Identity: Personal and Socio-Cultural. A Symposium 9789122006183, 9122006184, 9789155415006, 9155415008

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Identity: Personal and Socio-Cultural. A Symposium
9789122006183, 9122006184, 9789155415006, 9155415008

Author / Uploaded
Anita Jacobson-Widding
Mary Douglas
John Blacking
Thomas Luckmann
John Gumperz
George De Vos
Alan Dundes
Ulf Hannerz
Meyer Fortes
Erik H. Erikson

Commentary
A symposium sponsored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Committee for Multi-Ethnic Research at Uppsala University, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology of Uppsala University

Table of contents :
How identity problems disappear / Mary Douglas --
The concept of identity and folk concepts of self : a Venda case study / John Blacking --
Remarks on personal identity : inner, social and historical time / Thomas Luckmann --
Self-reference, consciousness and time / Charles Westin --
Communication and social identity / John J. Gumperz --
Socialization, social identity and discourse / Jenny Cook-Gumperz --
Ethnic identity and minority status : some psycho-cultural considerations / George De Vos --
Psychodynamics of personal and social identity : theoretical concepts and their measurement in adolescents from Belfast sectarian and Bristol minority groups / Peter Weinreich --
Dimensions of identity in multiple group allegiance : reconstruction through intergroup identification / Karmela Liebkind --
Ego-ecology : the study of the interaction between social and personal identities / Marisa Zavalloni --
Defining identity through folklore / Alan Dundes --
"Nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1: 9) : a case study in alternatives at early stages of the "language and ethnocultural identity" linkage / Joshua Fishman --
Identity definition, assertion and politicization in the central Himalayas / Gerald Berreman --
The construction of ethnic identities : the Nuristani and the Pashai of eastern Afghanistan / Jan Ovesen --
Senseless identity / Hermann Bausinger --
Tools of identity and imagination / Ulf Hannerz --
The identity of the artist / David de Levita --
Body and power : symbolic demarcations of separate identity / Anita Jacobson-Widding --
Problems of identity and person / Meyer Fortes --
Afterword / Erik H. Erikson.

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