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| ISBN: | 9780520911642
0520911644
0520075625 (alk. paper)
058512793X
9780585127934
9780520075627
0520075625
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and index.
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| Summary: | 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. Epstein develops an emotional profile of the Tolai, contending that societies are distinguished as much by the shape of their emotional life as they are by their social arrangements and cultural styles. Epstein describes a wide range of mourning ceremonies and other more and less public occasions.
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| Other form: | Print version: In the midst of life Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992. 0520075625 (alk. paper)
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