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Also known as persons

thumb|Sami Family 1900

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I cannot write an overview based on the provided context, as it only contains a photo caption describing a Sami family from 1900 with no explanatory text about the concept of "person." To write an accurate overview, I would need actual definitional or contextual information about what "person" means.

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Personhood
  • Personal identity
  • Development of the concept
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Sami Family 1900

A person (: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “person” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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