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The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guineas 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 peoples conduct, he charts a new course for ethnography that seeks to integrate the study of the emotions into anthropological analysis.
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In the Midst of Life : Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai Studies in Melanesian Anthropology ; 9
author
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Epstein, A. L.
publisher
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University of California Press
isbn10 | asin
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0520075625
print isbn13
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9780520075627
ebook isbn13
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9780585127934
language
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English
subject
Tolai (Melanesian people)--Psychology, Tolai (Melanesian people)--Social life and customs, Philosophy, Tolai, Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea--Gazelle Peninsula, Emotions, Affect (Psychology) , Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and custo
publication date
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1992
lcc
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DU740.42.E67 1992eb
ddc
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155.8/4995
subject
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Tolai (Melanesian people)--Psychology, Tolai (Melanesian people)--Social life and customs, Philosophy, Tolai, Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea--Gazelle Peninsula, Emotions, Affect (Psychology) , Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and custo
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In The Midst of Life
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STUDIES IN MELANESIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
General Editors
Donald F. Tuzin Gilbert H. Herdt Rena Lederman
1. Michael Young, Magicians of Manumanua: Living Myth in Kalauna
2. Gilbert H. Herdt, ed., Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
3. Bruce M. Knauft, Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Society
4. Kenneth E. Read, Return to the High Valley: Coming Full Circle
5. James F. Weiner, The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Society
6. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
7. James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier, Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State
8. Christopher Healey, Maring Hunters and Traders: Producation and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
9. A. L. Epstein, In the Midst of Life: Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai
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In The Midst of Life
Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai
A. L. Epstein
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley / Los Angeles / Oxford
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University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press Oxford, England
Copyright 1992 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) In the midst of life : affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai / A. L. Epstein. p. cm.(Studies in Melanesian anthropology; 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-07562-5 (alk. paper) 1. Tolai (Melanesian people)Psychology. 2. Tolai (Melanesian people)Social life and customs. 3. Philosophy, Tolai. 4. EthnopsychologyPapua New GuineaGazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island) 5. Emotions. 6. Affect (Psychology) 7. Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea)Social life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. DU740.42.E67 1992 155.8'4995dc2091-31561 CIP
Printed in the United States of America
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
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Ta ra tarai Matupit upi a varvanuknuk ure kaugu kini livuan pirediat and for Michelle and Debbie who will have their own recollections of Rabaul
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The human being is the most complex system in nature; his superiority over other animals is as much a consequence of his more complex affect system as it is of his more complex analytical capacities. Out of the marriage of reason with affect there issues clarity with passion. Reason without affect would be important, affect without reason would be blind. The combination of affect and reason guarantees man's high degree of freedom. Silvan Tomkins 1963:1, 112
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