Title In the midst of life : affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai / A.L. Epstein

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992] ©1992

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Description x, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 9 Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 9 Contents 1. Exploring Affect: Some Preliminary Issues -- 2. The Tolai: Habitat, History, Society -- 3. The Language of the Emotions -- 4. Work, Ambition, and Envy -- 5. Of Kin, Love, and Anger -- 6. Tambu, Grief, and the Meaning of Death -- 7. Affect and the Self -- 8. Epilogue: The Anthropologist as Onion-Peeler Analysis Ethnopsychology Papua New Guinea Ethnopsychology Papua New Guinea Notes Bibliography: p299-309. _Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index Subject Affect (Psychology) Emotions. Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island) Philosophy, Tolai. Tolai (Melanesian people) -- Psychology. Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea -- Gazelle Peninsula. Tolai (Melanesian people) -- Social life and customs. SUBJECT Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85053594 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 LC no. 91031561 ISBN 0520075625

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