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Exploring notions of the person through a wide range of anthropological literature, Cathrine Degnen analyses how personhood is built, affirmed, and maintained during various life stages and via multiple cultural forms and practices. In discussing the life course, she investigates personhood as a concept at the beginning of life, throughout life as lived, at the edges of being, and ultimately at life’s end. <i>Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course</i> moves beyond the huma
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Cathrine Degnen
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137566416
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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