Personhood, Self, and Individual

In every society, beliefs and ideologies circulate about the qualifications necessary to be classified or treated as a full person in the world. Personhood is often (though not always) thought to be constituted throughout the life course and many societies have distinct ontological and ethnopsychological ideas about the constitution of persons, including persons' articulation with others, their interpenetration with the world around them, their moral or jural capacities, and the qualities of their agency. If personhood is socially imputed, anthropologists often understand the term “self” to refer to the subjective and experiential sense that one is or has a locus of awareness—a private consciousness that, while it may be a universal human trait, is also socioculturally mediated. Ethnographic literature often remarks on the contrast between individualistic and sociocentric ideologies in the constitution of personhood and selfhood. The distinction furnishes a useful starting point but requires qualification and complication

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• Inserting the African multidimensional personhood (AMP) model between the personhood of the mental health practitioner and psychological practice

  Open Access•Shahieda Jansen•Philosophical Psychology•2025

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• Person and Self

  Open Access•Jack Sidnell•The International Encyclopedia of…•2020

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• Fragmentary and dispersed

  Brianna J Muir, Trinh Hoang Hiep et al.•Hunter Gatherer Research•2025

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• Sala’Ilua a Samoan Mystery

  Bradd Shore•Sala'Ilua a Samoan Mystery•1982

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• Consuming Grief

  Beth A Conklin•Consuming Grief•2001

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• Religion, Morality and the Person

  Open Access•Meyer Fortes•Religion, Morality and the Person•1987

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• Soul HuntersHunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs

  Rane Willerslev•Soul Hunters•2007

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• The Interpretation of Cultures

  Clifford Geertz•The Interpretation of Cultures•1973

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• Personhood and agency

  Symposium on African Folk Models and Their Application•Personhood and agency•1990

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• The Category of the person

  Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins et al.•The Category of the person•1985

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• Inventing Ourselves

  Jonathan Simon, Nikolas Rose•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1998

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• The Making and Unmaking of Persons

  Open Access•Lamb, Sarah Lamb•Ethos•1997

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• On Personhood

  John Comaroff, John L Comaroff et al.•Social Identities•2001

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• The Gender of the GiftProblems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia

  Marilyn Strathern•The gender of the gift•1988

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• The Category of the Person

  Mark S Mosko, Michael Carrithers et al.•Ethnohistory•1987

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• Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism

  Eduardo Batalha Viveiros De Castro•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1998

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• Is the Western Conception of the Self "Peculiar" within the Context of the World Cultures

  Open Access•Melford E Spiro•Ethos•1993

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• The matter of the unfetish

  Open Access•Sasha Newell•Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory•2014

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