| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Girdiiq nu Waqab ("people of Yap") -- From land to virtue -- Sentiment and social structure -- Subjectivity, embodiment, and social action -- Privacy, secrecy, and agency -- Yapese configurations of pain and suffering -- Stories told -- Dysphoric moments : a case study. |
| Summary |
Suffering and Sentiment examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. C. Jason Throop provides a vivid sense of Yapese life as he explores the local systems of knowledge, morality, and practice that pertain to experiencing and expressing pain. In so doing, Throop investigates the ways in which sensory experiences like pain can be given meaningful coherence in the context of an individual's culturally constituted existence. I. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical anthropology -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Yap.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Micronesia (Federated States) -- Yap. |
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Pain -- Treatment -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Yap.
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Pain -- Treatment. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Throop, C. Jason. Suffering and sentiment. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520260573 (DLC) 2009029171 (OCoLC)427757194 |
| ISBN |
9780520945937 (electronic book) |
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052094593X (electronic book) |
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9780520260573 |
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0520260570 |
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9780520260580 |
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0520260589 |
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9786612556265 |
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6612556269 |
| Standard No. |
9786612556265 |
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