The Anthropology of Empathy (eBook)

C. Jason Throop is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork on pain, suffering, and morality on the island of Yap in the Western Caroline Islands of Micronesia.

Douglas W. Hollan is Professor of Anthropology and Luckman Distinguished Teacher at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an instructor at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Douglas W. Hollanand C. Jason Throop

Part I:  History and Fieldwork as Lenses on Empathy

Chapter 1. Empathy, Ethnicity, and the Self among the Banabans in Fiji
Elfriede Hermann

Chapter 2. The Boundaries of Personhood, the Problem of Empathy, and “the Native’s Point of View” in the Outer Islands
Maria Lepowsky

Part II:  Universal and Particular Aspects of Empathy

Chapter 3. Empathy and “As-If” Attachment in Samoa
Jeannette Mageo

Chapter 4. Empathic Perception and Imagination Among the Asabano: Lessons for Anthropology
Roger Lohmann

Part III:  Personhood, Morality, and Empathy

Chapter 5. Suffering, Empathy, and Ethical Subjectivity in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia
C. Jason Throop

Chapter 6. Do Anutans Empathize?:  Morality, Compassion, and Opacity of Other Minds
Richard Feinberg

Chapter 7. Bosmun Foodways:  Emotional Reasoning in a PNG Life-World
Anita von Poser

Part IV:  Vicissitudes of Empathy

Chapter 8. Vicissitudes of “Empathy” in a Rural Toraja Village
Douglas W. Hollan

Afterword
Alan Rumsey

Bibliography
Index