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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 152.4/1; 152.41
• Soggetto topico: Empathy - Social aspects - Fiji; Empathy - Social aspects - Oceania; Ethnopsychology - Oceania; Self psychology - Oceania; Other (Philosophy) - Oceania
• Soggetto geografico: Oceania Ethnic relations; Oceania Social conditions
• Altri autori: HollanDouglas Wood ThroopC. Jason
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The anthropology of empathy
• ISBN: 0-85745-103-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819588503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ASAO studies in pacific anthropology.