ABSTRACT Despite people’s claims, their national, ethnic and other identities are not ubiquitously relevant, they are rather situationally evoked and performed. Such is the case with the German, Paraguayan and Germanino identity in the municipality of Nueva Germania, in Paraguay. Recognising such contextual epistemic permissibility allows us to form a de-essentialised understanding of groups and individuals. One of the challenges that emerge from this approach, is to understand how a person can perform different identities, which differently define who they are, while remaining certain of being a continuous and persistent person. The objective of this article is to provide a theoretical grounding for theories of social identity in theories of personal identity. It allows us to analytically accommodate the situational and multiscalar character of identities, while recognising their existential importance for personal identity (for the Self).

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作为德国人、巴拉圭人和德国人：探索社会和个人身份之间的关系

摘要 尽管人们声称，他们的民族、种族和其他身份并不是无处不在的，而是在情境中被唤起和表现出来的。巴拉圭新日耳曼尼亚自治市的德国人、巴拉圭人和日耳曼人身份就是这种情况。认识到这种语境认知的可允许性使我们能够对群体和个人形成一种去本质化的理解。这种方法带来的挑战之一是了解一个人如何表现不同的身份，不同的身份定义他们是谁，同时确定自己是一个持续和坚持的人。本文的目的是为个人认同理论中的社会认同理论提供理论基础。