A Fluid Ambiguity
Individual, Dividual and Personhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2174891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Udeni Appuhamilage (0000-0002-0055-8616, corresponding author), Udeni M H Appuhamilage (0000-0001-9196-5411, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442213.2016.1249020 |
| OpenAlex | W2569695206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
In this paper, I examine different conceptualisations and enactments of personhood, based on data gathered from a rural community in Sri Lanka. Through an examination of a relational web that moulds personhood, the article argues against a distinctive categorisation of autonomous/individualistic personhood and collectivistic/dividual personhoods; instead, it illuminates a fluidity of the boundaries that define the contours of one's persona, highlighting not the contrasts, but the analogies between these two categories. Furthermore, it explicates how such fluidity is complemented by a manipulative ambiguity. It is such fluidity and ambiguity that enables both collective and individual desires, anxieties and hopes to materialise in and through the relational web that sketches one's personhood and its borders
Ambiguity · Collectivism · Epistemology · Humanities · Individualism · Linguistics · Persona · Personhood · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Sri Lanka
The Long Revolution
Modernity and forms of personhood in Melanesia
Transaction and meaning
Fluid Signs
Refiguring the person
Bodies and Persons
A Secular Age
Sri Lanka
Reconciling Emotions with Western Personhood
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family
The Making and Unmaking of Persons
The Gender of the GiftProblems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
Sources of the self
From the Native's Point of View
Introduction
What is an individual
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Permeable and Partible Persons
Concepts of the person among the Gurungs of Nepal
Concepts of Individual, Self, and Person in Description and Analysis
The Whole Person and Its Artifacts
Mobile Persons
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |