Development of Personal and Cultural Identities

摘要: This chapter is about dualisms: dualisms in general, and, more particularly, those dichotomies of thought that set selves apart from society, and conceptually isolate individuals their communities. Because these familiar cleavages between persons collectives can only be understood the context centuries’ worth commitments to substance generally, begins with an introductory detour through earlier crash-sites contested claims alleged vices virtues dualistic generally. It obviously not enough, however, simply document bemoan isolationist tactics common most anthropologies, psychologies, sociologies, as each (with its own unique nonoverlapping units analysis) continues pass one another like proverbial ships night. Rather, it argued, a promising first step out this doctrinaire dilemma gets footing by treading on concepts already exist at margins paradigms governing such usual disciplinary divides. The personal cultural continuity are offered up provisional examples shared constructs, enlisted service post-Durkheimian account differential suicide rates Indigenous non-Indigenous cultures. Keywords: cultural continuity; dualism; identity; personal continuity; suicide