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In the Midst of Life : Affect and Ideation in title: the World of the Tolai Studies in Melanesian Anthropology ; 9 author: Epstein, A. L. publisher: University of California Press isbn10 | asin: 0520075625 print isbn13: 9780520075627 ebook isbn13: 9780585127934 language: English Tolai (Melanesian people)--Psychology, Tolai (Melanesian people)--Social life and customs, Philosophy, Tolai, Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea-- subject Gazelle Peninsula, Emotions, Affect (Psychology) , Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and custo publication date: 1992 lcc: DU740.42.E67 1992eb ddc: 155.8/4995 Tolai (Melanesian people)--Psychology, Tolai (Melanesian people)--Social life and customs, Philosophy, Tolai, subject: Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea-- Gazelle Peninsula, Emotions, Affect (Psychology) , Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and custo Page i In The Midst of Life Page ii STUDIES IN MELANESIAN ANTHROPOLOGY General Editors Donald F. Tuzin Gilbert H. Herdt Rena Lederman 1. Michael Young, Magicians of Manumanua: Living Myth in Kalauna 2. Gilbert H. Herdt, ed., Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia 3. Bruce M. Knauft, Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Society 4. Kenneth E. Read, Return to the High Valley: Coming Full Circle 5. James F. Weiner, The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Society 6. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia 7. James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier, Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State 8. Christopher Healey, Maring Hunters and Traders: Producation and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands 9. A. L. Epstein, In the Midst of Life: Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai Page iii In The Midst of Life Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai A. L. Epstein UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley / Los Angeles / Oxford Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press Oxford, England Copyright © 1992 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) In the midst of life : affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai / A. L. Epstein. p. cm.(Studies in Melanesian anthropology; 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-07562-5 (alk. paper) 1. Tolai (Melanesian people)Psychology. 2. Tolai (Melanesian people)Social life and customs. 3. Philosophy, Tolai. 4. EthnopsychologyPapua New GuineaGazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island) 5. Emotions. 6. Affect (Psychology) 7. Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea)Social life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. DU740.42.E67 1992 155.8'4995dc20 91-31561 CIP Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 Page v Ta ra tarai Matupit upi a varvanuknuk ure kaugu kini livuan pirediat and for Michelle and Debbie who will have their own recollections of Rabaul Page vi The human being is the most complex system in nature; his superiority over other animals is as much a consequence of his more complex affect system as it is of his more complex analytical capacities. Out of the marriage of reason with affect there issues clarity with passion. Reason without affect would be important, affect without reason would be blind. The combination of affect and reason guarantees man's high degree of freedom. Silvan Tomkins 1963:1, 112 Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 1 Exploring Affect: Some Preliminary Issues 2 29 The Tolai: Habitat, History, Society 3 53 The Language of the Emotions 4 80 Work, Ambition, and Envy 5 116 Of Kin, Love, and Anger 6 150 Tambu, Grief, and the Meaning of Death 7 198 Affect and the Self 8 248 Epilogue: The Anthropologist as Onion-Peeler

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The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. E
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In the Midst of Life : Affect and Ideation in title: the World of the Tolai Studies in Melanesian Anthropology ; 9 author: Epstein, A. L. publisher: University of California Press isbn10 | asin: 0520075625 print isbn13: 9780520075627 ebook isbn13: 9780585127934 language: English Tolai (Melanesian people)--Psychology, Tolai (Melanesian people)--Social life and customs, Philosophy, Tolai, Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea-- subject Gazelle Peninsula, Emotions, Affect (Psychology) , Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and custo publication date: 1992 lcc: DU740.42.E67 1992eb ddc: 155.8/4995 Tolai (Melanesian people)--Psychology, Tolai (Melanesian people)--Social life and customs, Philosophy, Tolai, subject: Ethnopsychology--Papua New Guinea-- Gazelle Peninsula, Emotions, Affect (Psychology) , Gazelle Peninsula (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and custo Page i In The Midst of Life Page ii STUDIES IN MELANESIAN ANTHROPOLOGY General Editors Donald F. Tuzin Gilbert H. Herdt Rena Lederman 1. Michael Young, Magicians of Manumanua: Living Myth in Kalauna 2. Gilbert H. Herdt, ed., Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia 3. Bruce M. Knauft, Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Society 4. Kenneth E. Read, Return to the High Valley: Coming Full Circle 5. James F. Weiner, The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Society 6. Marilyn Strathern, The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia 7. James G. Carrier and Achsah H. Carrier, Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State 8. Christopher Healey, Maring Hunters and Traders: Producation and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands 9. A. L. Epstein, In the Midst of Life: Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai Page iii In The Midst of Life Affect and Ideation in the World of the Tolai A. L. Epstein UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley / Los Angeles / Oxford Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press Oxford, England Copyright © 1992 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) In the midst of life : affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai / A. L. Epstein. p. cm.(Studies in Melanesian anthropology; 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-07562-5 (alk. paper) 1. Tolai (Melanesian people)Psychology. 2. Tolai (Melanesian people)Social life and customs. 3. Philosophy, Tolai. 4. EthnopsychologyPapua New GuineaGazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island) 5. Emotions. 6. Affect (Psychology) 7. Gazelle Peninsula (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea)Social life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. DU740.42.E67 1992 155.8'4995dc20 91-31561 CIP Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 Page v Ta ra tarai Matupit upi a varvanuknuk ure kaugu kini livuan pirediat and for Michelle and Debbie who will have their own recollections of Rabaul Page vi The human being is the most complex system in nature; his superiority over other animals is as much a consequence of his more complex affect system as it is of his more complex analytical capacities. Out of the marriage of reason with affect there issues clarity with passion. Reason without affect would be important, affect without reason would be blind. The combination of affect and reason guarantees man's high degree of freedom. Silvan Tomkins 1963:1, 112 Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 1 Exploring Affect: Some Preliminary Issues 2 29 The Tolai: Habitat, History, Society 3 53 The Language of the Emotions 4 80 Work, Ambition, and Envy 5 116 Of Kin, Love, and Anger 6 150 Tambu, Grief, and the Meaning of Death 7 198 Affect and the Self 8 248 Epilogue: The Anthropologist as Onion-Peeler

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The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. E
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