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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455569403321

Autore

Throop C. Jason

Titolo

Suffering and sentiment [[electronic resource] ] : exploring the vicissitudes of experience and pain in Yap / / C. Jason Throop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-55626-6

9786612556265

0-520-94593-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/610966

Soggetti

Medical anthropology - Micronesia (Federated States) - Yap

Pain - Treatment - Micronesia (Federated States) - Yap

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Brief Note on Transcription, Yapese Orthography, and Data Collection -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Girdiiq nu Waqab ("People of Yap") -- Chapter 2. From Land to Virtue -- Chapter 3. Sentiment and Social Structure -- Chapter 4. Subjectivity, Embodiment, and Social Action -- Chapter 5. Privacy, Secrecy, and Agency -- Chapter 6. Yapese Confi gurations of Pain and Suffering -- Chapter 7. Stories Told -- Chapter 8. Dysphoric Moments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Yapese Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Suffering and Sentiment examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. C. Jason Throop provides a vivid sense of Yapese life as he explores the local systems of knowledge, morality, and practice that pertain to experiencing and expressing pain. In so doing, Throop investigates the ways in which sensory experiences like pain can be given meaningful coherence in the context of an individual's culturally constituted existence. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of pain's



characteristics are personalized by individual sufferers, the book sheds important new light on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action.