Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja - Brossura

Hollan, Douglas W.; Wellenkamp, Jane C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0231084234 ISBN 13: 9780231084239

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates on the relationship between culture and individual psychology.

Hollan and Wellenkamp describe the central aspects of Torajan personal experience -emotion, identity, and sense of self- and a variety of fascinating cultural practices, including possession trance, kickfights, elaborate mortuary customs, dream interpretation, and buffalo sacrifice.

Presenting exceptionally detailed ethnographic data through a person-centered perspective and extensive use of open-ended interviews, Contentment and Suffering engagingly expresses how the Toraja understand their lives.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Douglas W. Hollan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jane C. Wellenkamp is Assistant Research Anthropologist in the Anthropology Department of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Product Description:

This ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia provides a portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates on the relationship between culture and individual psychology. Hollan and Wellenkamp describe the central aspects of Torajan personal experience - emotion, identity and sense of self - and a variety of fascinating cultural practices, including possession trance, kickfights, elaborate mortuary customs, dream interpretation and buffalo sacrifice.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0231084234
• ISBN 13: 9780231084239
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 313