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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-perception.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5557-X

0-8166-1109-2

OCLC:

182732670