Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 318 Seiten).
Edition:
Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012
ISBN:
978-0-520-91164-2
Series Statement:
Studies in Melanesian anthropology 9
Note:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520075627
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Psychology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Kuanua
;
Affekt
;
Gesellschaft
DOI:
10.1525/california/9780520075627.001.0001
URL:
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