ABSTRACT
The original source of this paper is an interest in techniques of the self. How do people everywhere forge a self in their everyday interactions, and what may be inferred about perceptions of what is human from these strategies and motivations? To take the argument further, what may such perceptions uncover about an underlying moral framework? Should such a framework be indicated, what implications would it have for theorizations of the psychological aspects of the modernization process in postcolonial situations?
