1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789750903321

Titolo

The anthropology of empathy : experiencing the lives of others in Pacific societies / / edited by Douglas W. Hollan and C. Jason Throop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-85745-103-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

ASAO studies in pacific anthropology

Altri autori (Persone)

HollanDouglas Wood

ThroopC. Jason

Disciplina

152.4/1

Soggetti

Empathy - Social aspects - Fiji

Empathy - Social aspects - Oceania

Ethnopsychology - Oceania

Self psychology - Oceania

Other (Philosophy) - Oceania

Oceania Ethnic relations

Oceania Social conditions

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

pt. 1. History and fieldwork as lenses on empathy -- pt. 2. Universal and particular aspects of empathy -- pt. 3. Personhood, morality, and empathy -- pt. 4. Vicissitudes of empathy.

Sommario/riassunto

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