The Anthropology of Empathy

Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

Douglas W. Hollan, C. Jason Throop (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2011
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-102-6 (ISBN)

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

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.

Douglas W. Hollan is Professor of Anthropology and Luckman Distinguished Teacher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an instructor at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.2011
Reihe/Serie	ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-85745-102-2 / 0857451022
ISBN-13	978-0-85745-102-6 / 9780857451026
Zustand	Neuware