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- Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life
- Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction to the Themes, Site, and Region
- Part II Higher Levels of Consciousness
- Part III Greater Innovation and Creativity
- Part IV Greater Awareness of an Integrated Personal Self
- 10 Personal Memory, the Scaffolded Mind, and Cognitive Change in the Neolithic
- 11 Adorning the Self
- 12 From Parts to a Whole? Exploring Changes in Funerary Practices at Çatalhöyük
- 13 New Bodies: From Houses to Humans at Çatalhöyük
- Notes
- Index
- References
11 - Adorning the Self
from Part IV - Greater Awareness of an Integrated Personal Self
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life
- Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction to the Themes, Site, and Region
- Part II Higher Levels of Consciousness
- Part III Greater Innovation and Creativity
- Part IV Greater Awareness of an Integrated Personal Self
- 10 Personal Memory, the Scaffolded Mind, and Cognitive Change in the Neolithic
- 11 Adorning the Self
- 12 From Parts to a Whole? Exploring Changes in Funerary Practices at Çatalhöyük
- 13 New Bodies: From Houses to Humans at Çatalhöyük
- Notes
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the phenomenon of personal adornment at Çatalhöyük with the aim of getting one step closer to what it meant to be a person in the Neolithic. When discussing self, the Western notion of self as autonomous and egocentric is usually taken as a starting point; however, using the term “dividual,” Strathern demonstrated that other concepts of self exist (Strathern 1988). According to Strathern, the Melanesian self is defined and redefined according to the relationships with particular places, objects, and people (Strathern 1988:13). While the dividual, composed of multiple divisible aspects of socially embedded self, is sociocentric and determined by social structures, the Western concept defines an individual as a highly egocentric and indivisible independent social actor. However, as Sutton notes in Chapter 10 of this volume, many authors now agree that all persons are to some degree both dividuals and individuals (Englund and Leach 2000:229; Hess 2006; Mageo 1995:283; Smith 2012; Sökefeld 1999), and as Sökefeld notes, both egocentrism and sociocentrism are integral aspects of every self (Sökefeld 1999:430).
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- Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life , pp. 230 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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