Description
Book SynopsisExploring 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 empathy in the Pacific region. More specifically, the volume examines significant regional patterns in the experience, enactment, recognition, and limits of empathy.
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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
