| Description |
1 online resource (x, 317 pages). |
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| Series |
Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 9
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Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tolai (Melanesian people) -- Psychology.
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Tolai (Melanesian people) -- Psychology. |
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Tolai (Melanesian people) |
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Tolai (Melanesian people) -- Social life and customs.
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Tolai (Melanesian people) -- Social life and customs. |
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Philosophy, Tolai.
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Philosophy, Tolai. |
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Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gazelle Peninsula.
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Ethnopsychology. |
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Papua New Guinea -- Gazelle Peninsula. |
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Emotions.
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Emotions. |
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Affect (Psychology)
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Affect (Psychology) |
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Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Ethnopsychology. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: In the midst of life Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992. 0520075625 (alk. paper) (DLC) 91031561 |
| ISBN |
9780520911642 ebook |
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0520911644 |
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0520075625 alkaline paper |
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058512793X (electronic book) |
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9780585127934 (electronic book) |
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9780520075627 |
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0520075625 |
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