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In the midst of life : affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai / A. L. Epstein.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, A. L., Author.
- Series:
- Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 9.
- Studies in Melanesian Anthropology ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Affect (Psychology).
- Emotions.
- Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea--Gazelle Peninsula.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Philosophy, Tolai.
- Tolai (Melanesian people)--Social life and customs.
- Tolai (Melanesian people).
- Tolai (Melanesian people)--Psychology.
- Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.
- Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. By investigating not only the words that stand for emotions but also the way affect enters into and informs people's conduct, he charts a new course for ethnography that seeks to integrate the study of the emotions into anthropological analysis.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Exploring Affect: Some Preliminary Issues
- 2. The Tolai: Habitat, History, Society
- 3. The Language of the Emotions
- 4. Work, Ambition, and Envy
- 5. Of Kin, Love, and Anger
- 6. Tambu, Grief, and the Meaning of Death
- 7. Affect and the Self
- 8. Epilogue: The Anthropologist as Onion-Peeler
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612758683
- 9781282758681
- 1282758683
- 9780520911642
- 0520911644
- 9780585127934
- 058512793X
- OCLC:
- 43476459
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