In the midst of life: affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai
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1. Verfasser: Epstein, Arnold Leonard 1924-1999 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press © 1992
Ausgabe:Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Melanesian anthropology 9
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index
Exploring Affect: Some Preliminary Issues -- The Tolai: Habitat, History, Society -- The Language of the Emotions -- Work, Ambition, and Envy -- Of Kin, Love, and Anger -- Tambu, Grief, and the Meaning of Death -- Affect and the Self -- Epilogue: The Anthropologist as Onion-Peeler
The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence. In his new book, A.L. Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai, contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrangements and cultural styles. Epstein describes a wide range of mourning ceremonies and other more and less public occasions
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 318 Seiten)
ISBN:9780520911642
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520075627.001.0001

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