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dc.contributor.authorWardle, Huon
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-06T23:34:12Z
dc.date.available2020-08-06T23:34:12Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-07
dc.identifier.citationWardle , H 2018 , ' ‘Characters… stamped upon the mind’. On the a priority of character in the Caribbean everyday ' , Social Anthropology , vol. 26 , no. 3 , pp. 314-329 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12533en
dc.identifier.issn0964-0282
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 253366367
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 48bff981-befa-4c07-86a4-941089fac4fa
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85051133723
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000441009600003
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-7179-8289/work/64034050
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20421
dc.description.abstract‘Character’ was a key term in the early development of Anthropology as a discipline – Kant gives over the entire last section of his Anthropology to refining the idea of character as a ‘way of thinking’. Perhaps inevitably, however, its ideological career since then – as the mark of a kind, or type of person – has been highly ambivalent. In the Caribbean, though, the idiosyncratic biographical gaze has loomed large. This article explores the status of character in an urban Caribbean everyday, where the demonstration of character through ‘talkover’ has profound social effects. Where does character come from? And what is its futurity in a social setting where no one can lay claim to autochthony, yet where ‘gifts’ are foundational to the ‘respect’ someone can command? Character belongs partly to the past as ‘a priority’, partly to the future as utopian protention.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Anthropologyen
dc.rights© 2018 European Association of Social Anthropologists. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12533en
dc.subjectTalkoveren
dc.subjectContrapuntalityen
dc.subjectCaribbeanen
dc.subjectCharacteren
dc.subjectSocial a priorityen
dc.subjectGN Anthropologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccGNen
dc.title‘Characters… stamped upon the mind’. On the a priority of character in the Caribbean everydayen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Social Anthropologyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12533
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2020-08-07


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