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245 00 a| Self-alteration :b| how people change themselves across cultures /c| Edited by Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Christopher Houston.;

264 1 a| New Brunswick :b| Rutgers University Press,c| [2024];

300 a| viii, 222 pages :b| color illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "Contemporary life across the globe is awash with activities, enterprises, and programs that purport to enable self-transformation. But how easy is it for people to alter themselves? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Cultures explores cross-cultural processes of self-change, as well as their related existential dilemmas. Focusing on projects, practices, and contexts of self-alteration, the authors in this volume create models for cross-cultural analysis of self-change that leads to fresh ways of addressing the "self" itself. Its essays begin with social processes that reveal how the self acquires a non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of alteration. This volume shows that, once self-alteration becomes an explicit focus of study, exciting new themes appear for investigation. The essays identify a number of modalities, methods, and mechanisms through which people seek to alter themselves. These include self-alteration via engagement with religious and spiritual traditions and innovations; self-alteration through embodied participation in therapeutic programs, including gendered care services; self-alteration by involvement in political activism; and self-change through relationships with the "more-than-human.""--c| Provided by publisher.;

650 0 a| Identity (Psychology)v| Cross-cultural studies.=| ^A8036;

650 0 a| Self-presentationv| Cross-cultural studies.=| ^A202955;

650 0 a| Change (Psychology)v| Cross-cultural studies.=| ^A29461;

650 0 a| Ethnopsychology.=| ^A742;

650 6 a| Identité (Psychologie)v| Études transculturelles.;

650 6 a| Présentation de soiv| Études transculturelles.;

650 6 a| Changement (Psychologie)v| Études transculturelles.;

650 6 a| Ethnopsychologie.;

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650 7 a| Identity (Psychology)2| fast;

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655 7 a| Cross-cultural studies.2| fast;

700 1 a| Baldacchino, Jean-Paule| editor.=| ^A1463447;

700 1 a| Houston, Christophere| editor.=| ^A489529;

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Self-alteration : how people change themselves across cultures / Edited by Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Christopher Houston.

Other author	Baldacchino, Jean-Paul editor.
Other author	Houston, Christopher editor.
Format	Book
Publication	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
Description	viii, 222 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Identity (Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies. Self-presentation--Cross-cultural studies. Change (Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies. Ethnopsychology. Identité (Psychologie)--Études transculturelles. Présentation de soi--Études transculturelles. Changement (Psychologie)--Études transculturelles. Ethnopsychologie.

Abstract	"Contemporary life across the globe is awash with activities, enterprises, and programs that purport to enable self-transformation. But how easy is it for people to alter themselves? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Cultures explores cross-cultural processes of self-change, as well as their related existential dilemmas. Focusing on projects, practices, and contexts of self-alteration, the authors in this volume create models for cross-cultural analysis of self-change that leads to fresh ways of addressing the "self" itself. Its essays begin with social processes that reveal how the self acquires a non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of alteration. This volume shows that, once self-alteration becomes an explicit focus of study, exciting new themes appear for investigation. The essays identify a number of modalities, methods, and mechanisms through which people seek to alter themselves. These include self-alteration via engagement with religious and spiritual traditions and innovations; self-alteration through embodied participation in therapeutic programs, including gendered care services; self-alteration by involvement in political activism; and self-change through relationships with the "more-than-human.""-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	Cross-cultural studies.
LCCN	2023011121
ISBN	9781978837232 hardcover
ISBN	1978837232 hardcover
ISBN	9781978837225 paperback
ISBN	1978837224 paperback
ISBN	electronic publication
ISBN	electronic book

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