ABSTRACT
Two of the most basic yet most elusive concepts in psychology, and therefore in psychologically oriented anthropology, are "self" and "person." It was only in 1902 that Charles Cooley suggested the term "looking glass self" to convey how an individual's self develops through social interactions and, more specifically, through a comprehension of how others perceive one's self. In 1959, Dorothy Lee described the self of the Wintu as expressed in their language; she found that the Wintu did not share the Western notion of "an established separate self" but that "a Wintu self is identical with the parts of his body and is not related to them as 'other' so long as they are physically part of him." There is experimental evidence that humans are not the only species capable of a sense of self. In 1970, the psychologist Gordon Gallup conducted experiments to determine if a chimpanzee knows who s/he is.
