In the Midst of Life - Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai

"An original work . . . it presents to anthropology the model for a new and very important field of inquiry."—Paula Brown Glick, State University of New York, Stony Brook

About the author

A. L. Epstein is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex.

Summary

The author 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 public occasions.

Product details

• Authors: A. L. Epstein, A.L. Epstein, Epstein A. L.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.1992
• EAN: 9780520075627
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07562-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Studies in Melanesian Anthropo; Studies in Melanesian Anthropology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social, group or collective psychology, Melanesia