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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 individual's culturally constituted existence. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of pain'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.

Medical anthropology --- Pain --- Treatment --- acute pain. --- anthropology. --- belief systems. --- chronic pain. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural experiences. --- culture of pain. --- ethical subjectivity. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- expressing pain. --- federated states of micronesia. --- human condition. --- human experience. --- human struggles. --- island of yap. --- knowledge. --- local customs. --- morality. --- pain sufferers. --- pain. --- personal accounts. --- personal experiences. --- sensory experiences. --- suffering. --- values. --- vicissitudes. --- waqab. --- yapese culture. --- yapese life.

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Toward an Anthropology of the Will, the first book that systematically explores volition from an anthropological point of view, demonstrates how a richly nuanced, ethnographically-informed approach to the cultural experience of willing can help shape theories of social action in the human sciences.

Will --- Act (Philosophy) --- Cognition and culture. --- Personality and culture. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Anthropological aspects.

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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

Empathy --- Ethnopsychology --- Self psychology --- Other (Philosophy) --- Social aspects --- Oceania --- Ethnic relations. --- Social conditions.