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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778389203321

Autore

Tuan Yi-fu <1930-2022.>

Titolo

Segmented worlds and self : group life and individual consciousness / / Yi-Fu Tuan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1982

ISBN

0-8166-5557-X

0-8166-1109-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

302.5

Soggetti

Self-perception

Interpersonal relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; WHOLE; 1. Segmentation, Consciousness, and Self; 2. Cohesive Wholes; PARTS; 3. Food and Manners; 4. House and Household; 5. Theater and Society; 6. Ambience and Sight; SELF; 7. Self; 8. Self and Reconstituted Wholes; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Segmented Worlds and Self, Yi-Fu Tuan is sensitive to the fact that "the isolated, critical and self-conscious individual is a cultural artifact" whose development "is closely tied to the evolution of aworld that is progressively more complex, specialized, and segmented." (p. 139) He argues that in the West this process of segmentation began at the end of the Middle Ages when communal forms of life started to disintegrate and gave way to more individualistic modes of experience and perception.