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    The Self According To The Perspective of Anthropology

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    Katherine Ewing described the self as encompassing the physical body, psychology, and social attributes. People construct different self-representations based on cultural concepts and memories that change depending on context. Cultural traditions shape the mind, self, and emotions in different ways for each ethnicity, resulting in divergent perspectives rather than a shared human psyche. Cultures either emphasize an independent self with internal traits or an interdependent self defined by relationships to others.

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    Katherine Ewing described the self as encompassing the physical body, psychology, and social attributes. People construct different self-representations based on cultural concepts and memories that change depending on context. Cultural traditions shape the mind, self, and emotions in different ways for each ethnicity, resulting in divergent perspectives rather than a shared human psyche. Cultures either emphasize an independent self with internal traits or an interdependent self defined by relationships to others.

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    THE SELF ACCORDING TO THE PERSPECTIVE OF ANTHROPOLOGY

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    Katherine Ewing described the self as encompassing the physical body, psychology, and social attributes. People construct different self-representations based on cultural concepts and memories that change depending on context. Cultural traditions shape the mind, self, and emotions in different ways for each ethnicity, resulting in divergent perspectives rather than a shared human psyche. Cultures either emphasize an independent self with internal traits or an interdependent self defined by relationships to others.

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    THE SELF ACCORDING TO THE PERSPECTIVE OF ANTHROPOLOGY

    Katherine Ewing (1990), described the self as encompassing the “physical organism, possessing
    psychological functioning and social attributes”.

    Self as Representation
    Katherine Ewing (1989) asserted that a “self” is illusory. People construct a series of self-representations
    that are based on selected cultural concepts of a person and selected ‘chains’ of personal memories. Each
    self-concept is experienced as a whole and continuous with its own history and memories that emerge in a
    specific context to be replaced by another self-representation when the context changes.

    The Self Embedded in Culture


    “Cultural traditions and social practices regulate, express, and transform the human psyche, resulting
    less in psychic unity for humankind than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion.”
    Cultural psychologists distinguished two ways of how the self is constructed. These are the independent
    and interdependent constructs. The independent construct is a characteristic of individualistic culture.
    Individualistic culture represents the self as separate, distinct, with emphasis on internal attributes or
    traits, skills, and values. The interdependent construct is typical of the collectivist culture stressing the
    essential connection between the individual to other people.
    Developmental psychologist Catherine Raeff (2010) believed that culture can influence how you view:
    relationships, personality traits, achievement, and expressing emotions.

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