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Proceedings of a symposium held at Uppsala University, Sweden, August, 1982

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Identity: Personal and Socio-Cultural A Symposium Contents Preface and Acknowledgements ................................................................................... 9 ANITA JACOBSON-WIDDING: Introduction .......................................................... 13 Part I. The Construction of Inner Identity MARY DOUGLAS: How Identity Problems Disappear ......................................... 35 JOHN BLACKING: The Concept of Identity and Folk Concepts of Self: A Venda Case Study .............................................................................................. 47 THOMAS LUCKMANN: Remarks on Personal Identity: Inner, Social and Historical Time ................................................................................................ 67 CHARLES WESTIN: Self-reference, Consciousness and Time ......................... 93 JOHN J. GUMPERZ: Communication and Social Identity .............................. 111 JENNY COOK-GUMPERZ: Socialization, Social Identity and Discourse 123 GEORGE DE VOS: Ethnic Identity and Minority Status: Some PsychoCultural Considerations .................................................................................... 135 PETER WEINREICH: Psychodynamics of Personal and Social Identity: Theoretical Concepts and Their Measurement in Adolescents from Belfast Sectarian and Bristol Minority Groups .......................................... 159 KARMELA LIEBKIND: Dimensions of Identity in Multiple Group Allegiance: Reconstruction through Intergroup Identification . . . 87 MARISA ZAVALLONI: Ego-ecology: The Study of the Interaction between Social and Personal Identities ........................................................ 205 Part II. Collective Representations of Identity ALAN DUNDES: Defining Identity through Folklore ........................................ 235 JOSHUA FISHMAN: "Nothing New under the Sun" (Ecclesiastes 1: 9): A Case Study in Alternatives at Early Stages of the "Language and Ethnocultural Identity" Linkage ...................................................................... 263 GERALD BERREMAN: Identity Definition, Assertion and Politicization in the Central Himalayas ................................................................................... 289 JAN OVESEN: The Construction of Ethnic Identities: The Nuristani and the Pashai of Eastern Afghanistan ........................................................ 321 Part III. Symbols of Personal Identity HERMANN BAUSINGER: Senseless Identity ...................................................... 337 ULF HANNERZ: Tools of Identity and Imagination .......................................... 347 DAVID DE LEVITA: The Identity of the Artist .................................................... 361 ANITA JACOBSON-WIDDING: Body and Power: Symbolic Demarcations of Separate Identity ................................................................................... 371 MEYER FORTES: Problems of Identity and Person ......................................... 389 ERIK H. ERIKSON: Afterword ................................................................................... 403 Contributors .................................................................................................................... 405 Index .................................................................................................................................. 409