Tahitians : mind and experience in the Society Islands /

Tahitians : mind and experience in the Society Islands /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Levy, Robert I. (Robert Isaac), 1924-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Description:	xxvii, 547 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Phoenix book ; P649 Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill P649.
Subject:	Ethnology -- French Polynesia -- Tahiti (Island) Ethnopsychology -- French Polynesia -- Society Islands. Tahitians. Ethnology. Ethnopsychology. Tahitians. Society Islands (French Polynesia) -- Social life and customs. Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Social life and customs. French Polynesia -- Society Islands. French Polynesia -- Tahiti (Island)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7891646

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ISBN:	0226476057 (pbk.) 9780226476056 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes index. Bibliography: p. 523-529.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Orientations
1. The Setting
2. Some Actors
II. Shared Privacy
1. Style, Integrations, and Surfaces
4. Bodies
5. Souls
6. Aspects of Personal Relationships
III. Psychological Abstractions
7. Self and Identity
8. Thinking
9. Feeling
10. Moral behavior
IV. Organization and Disorganization
11. Fantasy
12. Adjustment and Readjustment
13. Aspects of Growing Up
14. The Question of Maintenance
15. Aspects of Personal Organization Postscript: Time
Appendix 1. Check Sheet for Psychodynamic Interviews
Appendix 2. Interview Sample: Oro's Second Dream
Glossary
References
Index