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" Let me merely say that it is plain, particularly to us, that there has never existed a human being who has not been aware, not only of his body, but also at the same time of his individuality, both spiritual and physical. "
Public Faces, Private Lives: Community and Individuality in South India - Page 210
by Mattison Mines - 1994 - 244 pages
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The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History

Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, Steven Lukes - 1985 - 324 pages
...particularly to us, that there has never existed a human being who has not been aware [n'ait eu le sens] not only of his body, but also at the same time of his spiritual and physical individuality. Thus, he claims, he treats not 'the sense of "self" ', le sens...
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Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History

Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - 1991 - 364 pages
...'I,' 'me' ... has never existed, or that it has not expressed something clearly represented. . . . there has never existed a human being who has not...of his individuality, both spiritual and physical" (2-3). Logic falters in legitimating a hierarchy in which the perspective of the I is devalued in favor...
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The Social Science Encyclopedia

Adam Kuper - 1996 - 962 pages
...that all human societies have the concept of the separate 'person'. As Mauss wrote, 'it is plain . . . that there has never existed a human being who has...of his individuality, both spiritual and physical' (quoted in Garrithers et ai I985). Furthermore, anthropologists have noted that many of the features...
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Identity: A Reader

Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans, Peter Redman, Open University - 2000 - 446 pages
...more than I shall of linguistics, I shall leave aside everything which relates to the 'self' (wo/l, the conscious personality as such. Let me merely say...of his individuality, both spiritual and physical. The psychology of this awareness has made immense strides over the last century, for almost a hundred...
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Biographies of Scientific Objects

Lorraine Daston - 2000 - 324 pages
...lionized. But what kind of scientific object is the self, anyway? Just as I would agree with Marcel Mauss that "there has never existed a human being, who has...same time of his individuality, both spiritual and physical,"9 so I would hazard that the scrutiny of the contours of that awareness and the development...
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The New Age in Glastonbury: The Construction of Religious Movements

Ruth Prince, David Riches - 2000 - 336 pages
...fellow participants, and secondly throughout entire humankind. Cosmological Content and Individualism Let me merely say that it is plain, particularly to...of his individuality both spiritual and physical. (Mauss 1985: 15, our emphasis) In New Age cosmology very considerable attention is given to the elaboration...
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Thinking through the Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality

Yannis Hamilakis, Mark Pluciennik, Sarah Tarlow - 2002 - 280 pages
...discussing the particular and variable conceptions of person, Mauss nevertheless is unambiguously certain that "there has never existed a human being who has...of his individuality, both spiritual and physical", and uses terms like 'self (mo/) or 'individual' to refer to this bounded and aware human. Moore has...
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Thresholds of Western Culture: Identity, Postcoloniality, Transnationalism

John Burt Foster, Jr., Wayne Froman - 2003 - 285 pages
...some ways in which I think discussion might move forward. Beginning from the fairly sweeping assertion that "there has never existed a human being who has...of his individuality, both spiritual and physical," Mauss's lecture first surveys some of the most ancient "forms assumed by the notion of 'self (mot)"...
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The Moral Circle and the Self: Chinese and Western Approaches

Kim Chong Chong, Sor-hoon Tan, C. L. Ten - 2003 - 340 pages
...about every civilized society of which we have records. As DurkheinVs disciple Marcel Mauss put it: "Let me merely say that it is plain, particularly...of his individuality, both spiritual and physical." 6 Consider the following extracts from a Chinese poem from around the second quarter of the first millennium...
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Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology: A Volume in the Handbook of the ...

2011 - 900 pages
...the first person singular nor the psychological sense of self. With respect to the latter, he said, "there has never existed a human being who has not...of his individuality, both spiritual and physical" [1938; t. 1985, 3]. Just as Durkheim had argued that one does not require a cultural representation...
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