POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Marcel Mauss, Urination, Aghori
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Time and personhood are culturally produced (not natural) He focused on the concept of the self. The forms that the self takes on all over the world. He focused on the notion of the self and the relation of systems of law, religion, customs, social structure, and thought. The point is that the concept of the self is a relatively recent concept. It is a new understanding of man"s place in the universe. ): these groups of have a limited number of forenames (given names), they had a limited number of roles that people could play. Therefore, many people were playing the same societal roles. Clans are made up of a certain number of characters and roles. The notion of the self is absorbed into the clan itself. Not everybody had a concept of self as an individual that is separate from collective groupings. The person is more than a name and a roleplayer.
