Contentment and Suffering

Contentment and Suffering
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0231084234
ISBN-13 : 9780231084239
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Book Synopsis Contentment and Suffering by : Douglas Wood Hollan

Download or read book Contentment and Suffering written by Douglas Wood Hollan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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