The self from the

Anthropological
by:Chrishel Corsino, LPT
ANTHROPOLOGY

- Is concerned with how cultural

and biological process interact to
shape human experience.
- Compared with other disciplines, anthropology
possesses a holistic and integrated approach in
examining human nature.
CULTURAL IDENTITY AND
NATIONAL IDENTITY

Culture
- Is derived from the Latin word cultura or cultus
meaning care or cultivation.
- Culture is analogous to caring for an infant.

Identity
- Refers to “ who the person” or the qualities and
traits of an individual that make him or her different
from others. There are many ways on how to
distinguish people
Cultural Identity
-refers to the identity or feeling of
Belongingness to a certain
culture group.
- it is an individual’s perception about
himself or herself anchored on race, gender, nationality,
religion, ethnicity and language.

Cultural Identity theory

- Explains why a person acts and behave the way he or she
does.
Nation
- Is a group of people built on the
premise of shared customs, traditions,
religion, language, art, history
and more.

National Identity
- Refers to the identity or feeling of belongingness to one
state or nation.

Rupert Emerson, a political scientist, defines it as

“a body of people who feel that they are a nation”
Material Culture
- Such as the national flag, emblem,
or seal is representative of all the people
Who are part of the nation

Non- Material Culture

- Is embodies the shared understandings of a group of
people which includes norms, beliefs and traditions.
Brian Morris’s Anthropology
of the Self
- Brian Morris reiterated that the self
is not an entity but a process that
orchestrates an individual’s
personal experience.
-As a result of this process, a person becomes self-aware
and self reflective about his or her place in surrounding
world.

- The concept of “self” for him, is defined as an individual’s

mental representation of his or her person, as kind of self-
representation
- the concept of “other” in relation to the self , on the other
hand, refers to how one perceives the representations of
others.
Dialogical Self
- The dialogical self theory was
introduced in 1992 by
Hubert Hermans,

- The theory regarded “self” as

“the society of mind”
-He posited the idea that the self is considered as
extended to significant to others in the environment
that populate the self as a dynamic multiplicity of I-
positions in which dialogical or monological
relationships may emerge.
In this theory, an individual’s sense
of self is established through how one
identities himself or herself with the
different positions he or she holds,
internally or externally to himself or
herself.
An internal I – position refers to how one function in
himself or herself while an external I – position refers
to how one identifies himself or herself based on
particular external factors
Individual Self, Relational Self,
and collective self
1. The Individual Self
- It reflects the cognitions related to
traits, states and behaviors that are
stored in the memory
2. The relational self
- Reflects the cognitions that are related to one’s
relationships.
3. The collective self
- Reflects cognitions that are related to one’s group.
Identity Struggles
- It is a term introduced by Anthony
Wallance and Reymond Fogelson.
- It characterized the discrepancy
between the identity a person claims
to possess and the identity attributed to that person by
others.