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The crux is the skin: reflections on Southeast Asian personhood
Die Krux ist die Haut: Reflektionen über die südostasiatische Persönlichkeit
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Abstract
This essay is an exercise in the phenomenology of personhood based on some 25 years of field research among Javanese, Thai, and Filipinos. As I still slip up from time to time, I am convinced that it is relevant to both scholarly researchers and others with practical interests in the region to bette... view more
This essay is an exercise in the phenomenology of personhood based on some 25 years of field research among Javanese, Thai, and Filipinos. As I still slip up from time to time, I am convinced that it is relevant to both scholarly researchers and others with practical interests in the region to better know the people with whom they are or will be dealing. The ideas presented in this essay are grounded in my experiences with mainly members of the urban middle classes. In the narrative, they follow from the course of my fieldwork and remain close to the immediacy of situations and their interpretation, even as they result in the prospects of an action theory of Southeast Asian personhood.... view less
Keywords
Asia; individual; value system; Indonesia; Thailand; Southeast Asia; consciousness; personality traits; identity; personality; individuality; morality; ethics; Philippines
Classification
Personality Psychology
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Method
descriptive study
Free Keywords
Ethnology; Java; Philippines; personality; individual identity; conscience; private versus public; moral inequality; ethics of place; 1960-2010
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 95-116
Journal
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 30 (2011) 1
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works