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11 - Adorning the Self

from Part IV - Greater Awareness of an Integrated Personal Self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

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Milena Vasić
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Ian Hodder
Ian Hodder
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Stanford University, California
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This chapter explores the phenomenon of personal adornment at Çatalhöyük with the aim of getting one step closer to what it meant to be a person in the Neolithic. When discussing self, the Western notion of self as autonomous and egocentric is usually taken as a starting point; however, using the term “dividual,” Strathern demonstrated that other concepts of self exist (Strathern 1988). According to Strathern, the Melanesian self is defined and redefined according to the relationships with particular places, objects, and people (Strathern 1988:13). While the dividual, composed of multiple divisible aspects of socially embedded self, is sociocentric and determined by social structures, the Western concept defines an individual as a highly egocentric and indivisible independent social actor. However, as Sutton notes in Chapter 10 of this volume, many authors now agree that all persons are to some degree both dividuals and individuals (Englund and Leach 2000:229; Hess 2006; Mageo 1995:283; Smith 2012; Sökefeld 1999), and as Sökefeld notes, both egocentrism and sociocentrism are integral aspects of every self (Sökefeld 1999:430).

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Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life , pp. 230 - 249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Edited by Ian Hodder, Stanford University, California
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