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affect
affect theory
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anger
anthropology
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ceremony
cultural studies
currency
death
egotism
emotion
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ethnography
folk belief
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folklore
gazelle peninsula
grief
indigenous culture
indigenous peoples
individual
kin
kinship
loss
love
mourning
mourning ceremonies
new britain
nonfiction
papua new guinea
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rabaul
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social networks
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520075627
- Weight: 726g
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 1992
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
A. L. Epstein is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex.
