A Fluid Ambiguity: Individual, Dividual and Personhood
A Fluid Ambiguity: Individual, Dividual and Personhood
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流动的模糊性：个体、个体和人格
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2017
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Udeni M. H. Appuhamilage
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Udeni M. H. Appuhamilage
In this paper, I examine different conceptualisations and enactments of personhood, based on data gathered from a rural community in Sri Lanka.通过对塑造人格的关系网络的考察，本文反对对自主/个人主义人格和集体主义/个人人格的独特分类； instead, it illuminates a fluidity of the boundaries that define the contours of one’s persona, highlighting not the contrasts, but the analogies between these two categories. Furthermore, it explicates how such fluidity is complemented by a manipulative ambiguity.正是这种流动性和模糊性使得集体和个人的欲望、焦虑和希望能够在勾勒出一个人的人格及其边界的关系网络中实现。
In this paper, I examine different conceptualisations and enactments of personhood, based on data gathered from a rural community in Sri Lanka. Through an examination of a relational web that moulds personhood, the article argues against a distinctive categorisation of autonomous/individualistic personhood and collectivistic/dividual personhoods; instead, it illuminates a fluidity of the boundaries that define the contours of one’s persona, highlighting not the contrasts, but the analogies between these two categories. Furthermore, it explicates how such fluidity is complemented by a manipulative ambiguity. It is such fluidity and ambiguity that enables both collective and individual desires, anxieties and hopes to materialise in and through the relational web that sketches one’s personhood and its borders.