Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap - Couverture souple

Throop, Jason Jason

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520260589 ISBN 13 : 9780520260580

Editeur : University of California Press, 2010

Synopsis

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. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of pain's characteristics are personalized by individual sufferers, the book sheds important new light on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

C. Jason Throop is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520260589
• ISBN 13: 9780520260580
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible