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Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231084239)
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xContentment 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.Author: Douglas Hollan, Jane Wellenkamp
ISBN-10: 0231084234
ISBN-13: 9780231084239
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/1994
Pages: 313
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.02w x 0.75d
By Douglas Hollan
xDouglas 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.Recently Viewed Products
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