In the Midst of Life: Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai - Couverture rigide

Epstein, A. L.

 
9780520075627: In the Midst of Life: Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520075625 ISBN 13 : 9780520075627
Editeur : University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

A. L. Epstein is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520075625
ISBN 13 
9780520075627
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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