A01=Jason Throop
acute pain
anthropology
Author_Jason Throop
belief systems
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chronic pain
cultural anthropology
cultural experiences
culture of pain
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ethical subjectivity
ethnographers
ethnography
expressing pain
federated states of micronesia
human condition
human experience
human struggles
island of yap
knowledge
local customs
morality
pain
pain sufferers
personal accounts
personal experiences
sensory experiences
suffering
values
vicissitudes
waqab
yapese culture
yapese life
Product details
- ISBN 9780520260580
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Feb 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"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.
C. Jason Throop is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
