Suffering and sentiment
Subtitle: exploring the vicissitudes of experience and pain in Yap
By: C. Jason Throop.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520260573; 9780520260580
Subjects: Medical anthropology -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Yap; Pain -- Treatment -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Yap
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Girdiiq nu Waqab ("people of Yap"); title: From land to virtue; title: Sentiment and social structure; title: Subjectivity, embodiment, and social action; title: Privacy, secrecy, and agency; title: Yapese configurations of pain and suffering; title: Stories told; title: Dysphoric moments : a case study.