Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of

Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap

Suffering and Sentiment examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. C. Jason Throop provides a vivid sense of Yapese life as he explores the local systems of knowledge, morality, and practice that pertain to experiencing and expressing pain. In so doing, Throop investigates the ways in which sensory experiences like pain can be given meaningful coherence in the context of an individualâ‚¬s culturally constituted existence. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of painâ‚¬s characteristics are personalized by individual sufferers, the book sheds important new light on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2010-02-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2010-02-08
Format	Kindle eBook

Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap