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Contentment and Suffering
Hollan, Douglas W.; Wellenkamp, Jane C.
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Description for Contentment and Suffering
Paperback. This 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. Num Pages: 313 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 446.
Contentment 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.
Contentment 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
313
Condition
New
Number of Pages
313
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231084239
SKU
V9780231084239
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About Hollan, Douglas W.; Wellenkamp, Jane C.
Douglas 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.
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