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In the midst of life : affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai / A.L. Epstein.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 9.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (x, 317 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520911642
  • 0520911644
  • 058512793X
  • 9780585127934
  • 9780520075627
  • 0520075625
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In the midst of life.DDC classification:
  • 155.8/4995 20
LOC classification:
  • DU740.42 .E67 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index.

Print version record.

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.

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