Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities by Douglas Hollan - 9781032867748

Name: Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities by Douglas Hollan - 9781032867748
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and SubjectivitiesPerspectives from Anthropology and Psychoanalysis\nAuthor(s): Douglas Hollan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032867748, 978-1032867748\nSynopsis\nThis book explores cross-cultural similarities and differences of human subjectivity and selfhood through the concept of selfscapes.\n\nUtilizing an ethnographic and person-centered approach to the study of human subjectivity, Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities demonstrates that autopoietic processes are informed by the constraints of a social and material ecology acting on a particular person and by how that person is remembering and habitually responding to that history of engagement with the world. While the co-constitution of social and historical circumstance and individual reactivity and memory is universal, the way an autopoietic process unfolds within any given social ecology will vary, sometimes greatly, from pe.