Constrained Person and Creative Agent: A Dying Student's Narrative of Self and Others

A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 380-399

  Long, Susan Orpett ^a  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained person; Creative agent; European philosophical tradition; Personhood; Student

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889418251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996966.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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