ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marcel Mauss, Aghori, Circular Time
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Like always, these seemingly natural aspects of our lives are actually sociocultural constructs and are perceived differently around the world. Ancient greece, ancient rome, india and china. Rome: a person is more than their name and role. Greece: supplied a moral weight for the concept. Christianity turned the person" into a metaphysical entity. Was a sociologist who studied the zuni and kwaikutl groups. Studied the cultural construction of the self and how it is a recent concept that explains man"s place in the universe. In these two groups, there was a limited number of forenames and roles. Many people have to share the same role. Because of this, the notion of the individual" is absorbed into the clan there is no development of the self". Everything related to the clan is tied up with notions of the self. Who you are is determined by the roles you perform. Charles piot studied the concept of person" in toga.
