• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: On Self and Licensed Solitude: ‘That very private fella, me.’
  • Beteiligte: Sansom, Basil
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2009
  • Erschienen in: Oceania
  • Umfang: 65-84
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2009.tb00051.x
  • ISSN: 0029-8077; 1834-4461
  • Schlagwörter: History and Philosophy of Science ; Anthropology
  • Zusammenfassung: <jats:p><jats:bold>ABSTRACT</jats:bold> This essay is written to show that a liminal, in‐between space of withdrawal and dilly‐dally disassociation can harbour a special station of the self. Further, I propose that incumbency of this station is, from time to time, essential. Life lived always and only in group‐dependant association would be insupportable. My case is made with reference to Aborigines of northern Australia who say that they ‘run’ together in mobs. Nonetheless, I see this essay as a culturally specific contribution to a general category for investigation — the sociology of licensed solitude. As it happens, my illustrative case has licensed solitude functioning sometimes and additionally as retreat or hermitage — that station of withdrawal into which a person enters when turning away from fellow‐humans to seek inspiration from a Power. I compare the licensed solitude of the Aboriginal Countrymen with that of the academic who requires solitude as a station for that free interplay of primary and secondary imagination which sometimes may produce the anthropological sublime.</jats:p>
  • Beschreibung: <jats:p><jats:bold>ABSTRACT</jats:bold> This essay is written to show that a liminal, in‐between space of withdrawal and dilly‐dally disassociation can harbour a special station of the self. Further, I propose that incumbency of this station is, from time to time, essential. Life lived always and only in group‐dependant association would be insupportable. My case is made with reference to Aborigines of northern Australia who say that they ‘run’ together in mobs. Nonetheless, I see this essay as a culturally specific contribution to a general category for investigation — the sociology of licensed solitude. As it happens, my illustrative case has licensed solitude functioning sometimes and additionally as retreat or hermitage — that station of withdrawal into which a person enters when turning away from fellow‐humans to seek inspiration from a Power. I compare the licensed solitude of the Aboriginal Countrymen with that of the academic who requires solitude as a station for that free interplay of primary and secondary imagination which sometimes may produce the anthropological sublime.</jats:p>
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