The Development Some Aspects of the Ojibwa Self and Its Behavioral Environment

In his article "The Self and Its Behavioral Environment" (1955: chaps. 4 and 8), Hallowell urged anthropologists to undertake studies of culturally standardized concepts of the self and the culturally standardized complementary aspects of the environment. He also urged anthropologists to try to answer several questions about concepts of the self and its environment. Building on his work, I propose partial answers to two of the questions he raised. The first of these questions is, "What relation is there between varying selfconcepts and differential behavior?" The second question I attempt to answer is, "By what cultural means is self-awareness built up in different societies?" These questions are phrased cross-culturally, but I propose partial answers for them only for the Ojibwa and only for certain aspects of the self-concept. To the extent that this