Contentment and Suffering

Culture and Experience in Toraja

By: Douglas Hollan, Jane Wellenkamp

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Paperback | 18 January 1994 | Edition Number 1

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313 Pages

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Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates on the relationship between culture and individual psychology.

Hollan and Wellenkamp describe the central aspects of Torajan personal experience -emotion, identity, and sense of self- and a variety of fascinating cultural practices, including possession trance, kickfights, elaborate mortuary customs, dream interpretation, and buffalo sacrifice.

Presenting exceptionally detailed ethnographic data through a person-centered perspective and extensive use of open-ended interviews, Contentment and Suffering engagingly expresses how the Toraja understand their lives.

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"A readable and well organized 'person-centered ethnography, 'discussing personhood, identity, mental states, values, and experiences of Toraja villagers of Sulawesi in Indonesia." -- "Choice"

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