The anthropology of empathy : experiencing the lives of others in Pacific societies

Author(s)

• Hollan, Douglas Wood
• Throop, C. Jason

Bibliographic Information

The anthropology of empathy : experiencing the lives of others in Pacific societies

edited by Douglas W. Hollan and C. Jason Throop

（ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology / general editor, Rupert Stasch, v. 1）

Berghahn Books, 2011

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of many assumptions of contemporary philosophical, neurobiological, and social scientific treatments of the topic. The variations described in this book do not necessarily preclude the possibility of shared existential, biological, and social influences that give empathy a distinctly human cast, but they do provide an important ethnographic lens through which to examine the possibilities and limits of empathy in any given community of practice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Douglas W. Hollanand C. Jason Throop Part I: History and Fieldwork as Lenses on Empathy Chapter 1. Empathy, Ethnicity, and the Self among the Banabans in Fiji Elfriede Hermann Chapter 2. The Boundaries of Personhood, the Problem of Empathy, and "the Native's Point of View" in the Outer Islands Maria Lepowsky Part II: Universal and Particular Aspects of Empathy Chapter 3. Empathy and "As-If" Attachment in Samoa Jeannette Mageo Chapter 4. Empathic Perception and Imagination Among the Asabano: Lessons for Anthropology Roger Lohmann Part III: Personhood, Morality, and Empathy Chapter 5. Suffering, Empathy, and Ethical Subjectivity in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia C. Jason Throop Chapter 6. Do Anutans Empathize?: Morality, Compassion, and Opacity of Other Minds Richard Feinberg Chapter 7. Bosmun Foodways: Emotional Reasoning in a PNG Life-World Anita von Poser Part IV: Vicissitudes of Empathy Chapter 8. Vicissitudes of "Empathy" in a Rural Toraja Village Douglas W. Hollan Afterword Alan Rumsey Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB0690951X
• ISBN:
  • 9780857451026
• LCCN: 2010050323
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 233 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DU600
  • DC22 : 152.4/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Empathy -- Social aspects -- Fiji
  • LCSH : Empathy -- Social aspects -- Oceania
  • LCSH : Ethnopsychology -- Oceania
  • LCSH : Self psychology -- Oceania
  • LCSH : Other (Philosophy) -- Oceania
  • LCSH : Oceania -- Ethnic relations
  • LCSH : Oceania -- Social conditions
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB06909338