Theorizing self in Samoa
Subtitle: emotions, genders, and sexualities
By: Jeannette Marie Mageo.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Ethnology -- Samoan Islands.; Samoans -- Psychology.; Self.; Personality and culture -- Samoan Islands.; Samoans -- Socialization.; Samoan Islands -- Social life and customs.
Description: Anthropologist Jeannette Marie Mageo develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa, which provides a unique opportunity to consider the dialectic between historical change and personal experience, and uncovers ways in which cultural history is forever leaving its fingerprints upon human lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-282) and index.