ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Erving Goffman, Stoicism
16 Oct 2015
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Anth 202 - lecture 12 - selfhood & performativity. Much of the interactions we have with others is performative. Talking about what it means to be yourself. Interrelationship between how we present ourselves and who we really are. Searches for his true self his personality because his colbert report character isn"t the. Reason for society is because we all owe each other something. Western view of self is cultural and becomes influenced by history. Each of us finds it natural, clearly determined in the depths of his consciousness, completely furnished with the fundaments of the of the morality which flows from it. Studied a lot of other people"s works. Self is a fundamental concept in west. Personnages, who i am is outside and projected inward. Ex: the mourning wars, iroquois fought to replenish population and would adopt . Basically abduct someone from enemy tribe and tell them who to be.
