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Zusatztext "This volume is not only of value to anthropologists; it is highly recommended for anybody involved in or preparing for cross-cultural work. It can help raise awareness of the importance and the limitation of cross-cultural empathy! encouraging quality fieldwork! as well as more research into empathy elsewhere in the world." · Missiology: An International Review Informationen zum Autor Douglas W. Hollan is Professor of Anthropology and Luckman Distinguished Teacher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an instructor at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. C. Jason Throop is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork on pain, suffering, and morality on the island of Yap in the Western Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Klappentext Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of many assumptions of contemporary philosophical, neurobiological, and social scientific treatments of the topic. The variations described in this book do not necessarily preclude the possibility of shared existential, biological, and social influences that give empathy a distinctly human cast, but they do provide an important ethnographic lens through which to examine the possibilities and limits of empathy in any given community of practice. Zusammenfassung Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of empathy in the Pacific region. More specifically, the volume examines significant regional patterns in the experience, enactment, recognition, and limits of empathy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Douglas W. Hollan and C. Jason Throop Part I: History and Fieldwork as Lenses on Empathy Chapter 1. Empathy, Ethnicity, and the Self among the Banabans in Fiji Elfriede Hermann Chapter 2. The Boundaries of Personhood, the Problem of Empathy, and “the Native’s Point of View” in the Outer Islands Maria Lepowsky Part II: Universal and Particular Aspects of Empathy Chapter 3. Empathy and “As-If” Attachment in Samoa Jeannette Mageo Chapter 4. Empathic Perception and Imagination Among the Asabano: Lessons for Anthropology Roger Lohmann Part III: Personhood, Morality, and Empathy Chapter 5. Suffering, Empathy, and Ethical Subjectivity in Yap ( Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia C. Jason Throop Chapter 6. Do Anutans Empathize?: Morality, Compassion, and Opacity of Other Minds Richard Feinberg Chapter 7. Bosmun
