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The Bracing, Empty Self vs. the Open, Heart-Minded Self

By Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame   The anthropologist, Colin Turnbull (1984), contrasted his British upbringing with African Mbuti (Bambuti) children, a non-industrialized foraging society (with few possessions) whom he studied. The Mbuti represent the type of society similar to that in which...