Notes on a Dialogical Anthropology

Culture and Identity in Anthropology: Reflections on ‘unity’ and ‘uncertainty’ in the Dialogical Self

The dialogical self is a very useful concept for the analysis of the multiple identifications of individuals in multicultural circumstances that are so characteristic of the contemporary era of globalisation. It complements the dynamic conception of culture that has emerged in anthropology in recent decades, while it has a number of advantages over the traditional concept of identity. This arti...

Notes towards an Anthropology of Political Revolutions

While resistance and rebellion have remained core themes in anthropology at least since the 1960s, anthropologists have paid much less attention to the study of political revolutions as real historical events. Yet there are compelling real-world reasons why they should orient their analytical apparatus and A N T H R O P O L O G Y O F P O L I T I C A L R E V O L U T I O N S 705

Dialogical Self , Dialogical Other : A Brief Overview of Dialogical Psychotherapy

The philosophy of Martin Buber as a philosopher of dialogue is well known to philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophical anthropology. His thoughts and how they have been applied to human counseling and psychotherapy are however, less well known. This article presents an overview of some of the modern and postmodern therapists and analysts who have drawn from his philosophy important ...

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Doubtfulness – a Dialogical Perspective

inner dialogue. Internal dialogical activity often reduces the experience of uncertainty by integration of contrasting ideas. Sometimes, however, the result is quite opposite – doubts grow rather than being reduced. The paper proposes a dialogical model of doubtfulness and presents empirical findings which are consistent with the model. Additionally, the functions of doubtfulness and internal d...