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Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja

Contentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja

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AnthropologyGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0231084234
ISBN13: 9780231084239
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 18 1994
Pages: 313
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.07
Language: English

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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