In the Midst of Life : Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Melanesian Anthropology
ISBN-10
0520075625
ISBN-13
9780520075627
Publisher
University of California Press
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University of California Press
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US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 12th, 1992
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
632 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
MelanesiaAnthropologySocial, group or collective psychology
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The author 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 public occasions.
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.
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