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The anthropology of empathy : experiencing the lives of others in Pacific societies / edited by Douglas W. Hollan and C. Jason Throop.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ASAO studies in pacific anthropology.
- ASAO studies in pacific anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Empathy--Social aspects--Fiji.
- Empathy--Social aspects--Oceania.
- Ethnopsychology--Oceania.
- Self psychology--Oceania.
- Other (Philosophy)--Oceania.
- Oceania--Ethnic relations.
- Oceania--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of many assumptions of contemporary philosophical, neurobiological, and social scientific treatments of the topic. The variations described in this book do not necessarily preclude the possibility of shared existential, biological, and social influences that give empathy a distinctly human cast, but they do provide an important ethnographic lens through which to examine the possibilities and limits of empathy in
- Contents:
- pt. 1. History and fieldwork as lenses on empathy
- pt. 2. Universal and particular aspects of empathy
- pt. 3. Personhood, morality, and empathy
- pt. 4. Vicissitudes of empathy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857451033
- 0857451030
- OCLC:
- 751694558
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