Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java falls within the long-standing tradition of anthropological theorising regarding the person, and takes inspiration from the philosophical writings of G. Deleuze. It comprises a critical intervention in the said literatures, develops new conceptual tools and reconfigures old methodological strategies. As a thought experiment, it foregrounds and advances the concept of the diaphoron person a person who constantly differs from him/herself and who is always already involved in an unlimited process of becoming as a...

Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java falls within the long-standing tradition of anthropological theorising regarding the person, and takes inspiration from the philosophical writings of G. Deleuze. It comprises a critical intervention in the said literatures, develops new conceptual tools and reconfigures old methodological strategies. As a thought experiment, it foregrounds and advances the concept of the diaphoron person a person who constantly differs from him/herself and who is always already involved in an unlimited process of becoming as a...