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 1


INTRODUCTION


1. Who Am I? The Search for the Self 3


Part 2


CULTURE AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY


2. The Discovery of the Individual 19


3. Authenticity and Its Vicissitudes 42


Part 3


THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PERSONAL BEING


4. How "Other" Is the Other? 73


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5. The Psychoanalysis of Culture 112


6. Quandaries and Alternatives 139


7. Creativity and Alterity 168


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Part 4


PROBLEMS AND SOME SOLUTIONS


8. Dialectics of Self and Other 205


9. The Thinking Animal 235


10. Feeling and Being 266


11. Outsiders and Charismatics 296


Part 5


APPLICATIONS


12. Love and Culture 333


13. Being an American 366


BIBLIOGRAPHY 399


INDEX 429