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Gandhi or Gramsci? The Use of Authoritative Sources in Anthropology
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The English...have a habit of writing history; they pretend to study the manners and customs of all peoples.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
I became interested in the many Indian philosophers and philosophies that focused on the nature of the self, consciousness, emotion and related issues well before entering graduate school in anthropology. My attraction was partly due to what I felt to be the inadequacy of western philosophy and psychology-with which I was more familiar-to ...
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Gandhi or Gramsci? The Use of Authoritative Sources in Anthropology
Anthropological Quarterly
; The Englishhave a habit of writing history; they pretend to study the manners and customs of all peoples. -Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj I became interested in the many Indian philosophers and philosophies that focused on the nature of the self, consciousness, emotion and related issues well
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KEYNOTE: Drama in Education: Finding self, finding "home"
Caribbean Quarterly
; ... qualitatively through different constructions of maps, by integrating meanings and stories into ... The first map is the neonate's. Later maps are imposed on this and each other. The self is a palimpsest of maps. "(Bond, 2000a:117) Bond places value and ...
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The Method of Early Advaita Vedanta.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; The Method of Early Advaita Vedanta. By MICHAEL COMANS. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2000. Pp. xxiv + 492. Rs 495. What are we to make of a philosophy that promises to free us from the bonds of limited existence merely by conveying an understanding of a few scriptural passages? While this question
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Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought
Canadian Psychology
; ANAND C. PARANJPE Self and Identity in Modern Psychology and Indian Thought New York: Plenum Press, 1998, 416 pp. (ISBN 0-306-45844-6, US$69.50, Hardcover) Reviewed by THOMAS TEO and NANDITA NAUTIYAL This book is without a doubt an exemplary philosophical-psychological achievement, the result of
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Advaita Vedanta.(Advaita Vedanta: History of Science, Philosophy, and Culture in Indian Civilization, vol. 2)(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; Advaita Vedanta. Edited by R. BALASUBRAMANIAN. History of Science, Philosophy, and Culture in Indian Civilization, vol. II, part 2. New Delhi: PROJECT OF HISTORY OF INDIAN SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND CULTURE, 2000. Pp. 696. This volume consists of twenty-one articles by various Indian scholars, each
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Symbolic interactionism revised: Potential liabilities for the self constructed in the crucible of interpersonal relationships
Merrill - Palmer Quarterly
; The contributions are reviewed of three symbolic interactionists, Baldwin, Cooley, and Mead, for whom the self was primarily a social construction, crafted through the linguistic exchanges (i.e., symbolic interactions) with significant others. Although the symbolic interactionists pointed to
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Playful illusion: the making of worlds in Advaita Vedanta.
Philosophy East and West
; The idea of creation as the play or lila of the gods has been a significant motif in Indian culture since Vedic times. While the tradition of Advaita Vedanta is no exception to this generalization, it nevertheless presents some distinct problems that are unique to this school of thought. One of the
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A neurocognitive and socioecological model of self-awareness.
Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs
; ... sources ([2.3], e.g., television programs and news, the Internet, and movies). And finally ... articles, the media (newspapers and television news and programs), the Internet, radio, CDs ... observing real people or actors on the news and in movies engaging in what one believes ...
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SAVING THE SELF? CLASSICAL HINDU THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONTEMPORARY PHYSICALISM.
Philosophy East and West
; This is a highly programmatic essay. It aims to provide some suggestions on how classical Indian philosophical material may contribute to current discussions in consciousness studies, but does not attempt to provide either a textual exploration of that material or a detailed taxonomy of issues in
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(book reviews)
Philosophy East and West
; The title of Arvind Sharma's new book, The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedanta: A Comparative Study in Religion and Reason, may be deceptive, for Sharma does not compare Advaita Vedanta to something as broad as Philosophy of Religion, but only to John Hick, as representative of modern
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