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Contentment and Suffering - by Douglas Hollan & Jane Wellenkamp (Paperback)

Name: Contentment and Suffering - by Douglas Hollan & Jane Wellenkamp (Paperback)
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Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates on the relationship between culture and individual psychology.
About the Author: Douglas W. Hollan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
313 Pages
Psychology, General

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This psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates on the relationship between culture and individual psychology.

Book Synopsis

Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates on the relationship between culture and individual psychology.

Hollan and Wellenkamp describe the central aspects of Torajan personal experience -emotion, identity, and sense of self- and a variety of fascinating cultural practices, including possession trance, kickfights, elaborate mortuary customs, dream interpretation, and buffalo sacrifice.

Presenting exceptionally detailed ethnographic data through a person-centered perspective and extensive use of open-ended interviews, Contentment and Suffering engagingly expresses how the Toraja understand their lives.

Review Quotes

"A readable and well organized 'person-centered ethnography, 'discussing personhood, identity, mental states, values, and experiences of Toraja villagers of Sulawesi in Indonesia." -- "Choice"

About the Author

Douglas W. Hollan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jane C. Wellenkamp is Assistant Research Anthropologist in the Anthropology Department of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.07 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x .75 Inches (D)

Weight: .96 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 313

Genre: Psychology

Sub-Genre: General

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Douglas Hollan & Jane Wellenkamp

Language: English

Street Date: January 18, 1994

TCIN: 1005994971

UPC: 9780231084239

Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-8984

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 0.96 pounds

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