Culture and Identity

Charles Lindholm is Professor in the prestigious University Professors Program and in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. Prior to coming to Boston in 1990 he taught at Columbia, Barnard and Harvard, where he held a joint appointment in Anthropology and in Social Studies. His publications include Generosity and Jealousy: The Swat Pukhtun of Northern Pakistan (based on his dissertation) and a collection entitled Frontier Perspectives: Essays in Comparative Anthropology.

• Part 1INTRODUCTION1. Who Am I? The Search for the Self 3Part 2CULTURE AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY2. The Discovery of the Individual 193. Authenticity and Its Vicissitudes 42Part 3THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PERSONAL BEING4. How "Other" Is the Other? 73lin79955_fm.qxd 4/21/07 2:42 PM Page xv5. The Psychoanalysis of Culture 1126. Quandaries and Alternatives 1397. Creativity and Alterity 168xvi Brief ContentsPart 4PROBLEMS AND SOME SOLUTIONS8. Dialectics of Self and Other 2059. The Thinking Animal 23510. Feeling and Being 26611. Outsiders and Charismatics 296Part 5APPLICATIONS12. Love and Culture 33313. Being an American 366BIBLIOGRAPHY 399INDEX 429

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