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Suffering and sentiment : exploring the vicissitudes of experience and pain in Yap / C. Jason Throop.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Throop, C. Jason.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical anthropology--Micronesia (Federated States)--Yap.
- Medical anthropology.
- Pain--Treatment--Micronesia (Federated States)--Yap.
- Pain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of pain's characteristics are personalized by individual sufferers, the book sheds important new light on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Brief Note on Transcription, Yapese Orthography, and Data Collection
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Girdiiq nu Waqab ("People of Yap")
- Chapter 2. From Land to Virtue
- Chapter 3. Sentiment and Social Structure
- Chapter 4. Subjectivity, Embodiment, and Social Action
- Chapter 5. Privacy, Secrecy, and Agency
- Chapter 6. Yapese Confi gurations of Pain and Suffering
- Chapter 7. Stories Told
- Chapter 8. Dysphoric Moments
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary of Yapese Terms
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612556265
- 9781282556263
- 1282556266
- 9780520945937
- 052094593X
- OCLC:
- 613206368
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