from (mechanistically determined) nature, and this split registered its effect on anthropological theories. In contemporary psychology … humans and communities are more often described in ways that recognize that their relations are constitutive. A person is no longer defined as an “individual substance of a rational nature” (Boethius) or as a “punctual self” (Locke). Instead of autonomous subjects that stand over against the natural world and other subjects, today human self-consciousness is understood