Suffering and sentiment: exploring the vicissitudes of experience and pain in Yap
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1. Verfasser: Throop, C. Jason (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Girdiiq nu Waqab ("people of Yap") -- From land to virtue -- Sentiment and social structure -- Subjectivity, embodiment, and social action -- Privacy, secrecy, and agency -- Yapese configurations of pain and suffering -- Stories told -- Dysphoric moments : a case study
Suffering and Sentiment examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. C. Jason Throop provides a vivid sense of Yapese life as he explores the local systems of knowledge, morality, and practice that pertain to experiencing and expressing pain. In so doing, Throop investigates the ways in which sensory experiences like pain can be given meaningful coherence in the context of an individual's culturally constituted existence. I.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 329 pages)
ISBN:0520260570
0520260589
052094593X
9780520260573
9780520260580
9780520945937

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