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List of Illustrations | |
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List of Boxes | |
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Timeline | |
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Introduction | |
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Who Am I? The Search for the Self | |
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Identity in America | |
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Questioning Self-Certainty | |
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On the Borderline of Psychology and Anthropology | |
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Outline of the Argument | |
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Culture and the Individual in Western Philosophy | |
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The Discovery of the Individual | |
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The Discovery of the Unified Self | |
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A Human-Centered Universe: The Renaissance | |
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Protestantism, Capitalism, and Individualism | |
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New Paradigms: Montaigne, Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, and Kant | |
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Authenticity and Its Vicissitudes | |
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Rousseau and Romanticism | |
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Human Beings as Maximizers: Utilitarianism | |
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The German Reaction: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, and Nietzsche | |
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Reconstructing Social Being: Weber, Durkheim, and Freud | |
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The Anthropology of Personal Being | |
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How "Other" Is the Other? | |
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Testing Perception across Cultures | |
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Classifications, Complexity, and Intelligence | |
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Culture, Reason, and Socialization | |
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Authentic Culture | |
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The Foundations of Culture and Personality | |
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The Psychoanalysis of Culture | |
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Can There Be a Freudian Anthropology? | |
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Neo-Freudian Approaches: Kardiner, Du Bois, and Erikson | |
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Freedom and Repression: The Study of National Character | |
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Quandaries and Alternatives | |
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The Whitings' Comparative Anthropology | |
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Culture and Identity: Peirce, G. H. Mead, Hallowell, and Goffman | |
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The Affirmation of Diversity: Wallace, LeVine, and Spiro | |
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Creativity and Alterity | |
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Agency and Action: Turner, Obeyesekere, and Crapanzano | |
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Interpretation and Critique: Geertz, Shweder, Taussig, and Scheper-Hughes | |
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The Cultural Body | |
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Being in Culture | |
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Problems and Some Solutions | |
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Dialectics of Self and Other | |
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Defining the Self | |
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Sociocentric and Egocentric Selves | |
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Hegemony, Hybridity, and the Decentered Self | |
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Hierarchical Categories: Race, Sex, and Caste | |
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The Thinking Animal | |
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Thinking about Thinking | |
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The Evolution of Cognitive Anthropology | |
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Computers, Consciousness, and Cultural Models | |
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Feeling and Being | |
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Conceptualizing the Passions | |
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Emotion as Embodied Thought | |
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The Dialectics of Emotion | |
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Outsiders and Charismatics | |
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Understanding the Marginalized Individual | |
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Culture and Insanity | |
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The Social Structure of Stigma | |
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Charisma | |
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Applications | |
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Love and Culture | |
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Paths to Selflessness | |
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Love in History | |
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Looking for Love | |
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The Nature of Love | |
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Being an American | |
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Distinctions | |
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American Values | |
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Wealth and Egalitarianism | |
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Politics and Community | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |