TY - BOOK ID - 143472256 TI - The Anthropology of Empathy AU - Feinberg, Richard AU - Hermann, Elfriede AU - Hollan, Douglas W AU - Lepowsky, Maria AU - Lohmann, Roger Ivar AU - Mageo, Jeannette AU - Rumsey, Alan AU - Throop, C Jason AU - Von Poser, Anita PY - 2011 SN - 9780857451033 0857451030 0857451022 9780857451026 9780857451026 PB - New York Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Empathy KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Self psychology KW - Other (Philosophy) KW - Social aspects KW - Oceania KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143472256 AB - Exploring the role of empathy in a variety of Pacific societies, this book is at the forefront of the latest anthropological research on empathy. It presents distinct articulations of many assumptions of contemporary philosophical, neurobiological, and social scientific treatments of the topic. The variations described in this book do not necessarily preclude the possibility of shared existential, biological, and social influences that give empathy a distinctly human cast, but they do provide an important ethnographic lens through which to examine the possibilities and limits of empathy in ER -