| TITLE: |
A Chuukese theory of personhood : the concepts body, mind, soul and spirit o the Islands of Chuuk (Micronesia) : an ethnolinguistic study Lothas Käser. |
| AUTHOR: |
Käser, Lothar. |
| PUBLISHED: |
Nürnberg, Germany : VTR Publications, 2016. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
305 p. : 21 cm. |
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"Translated from German by Geoffrey Sutton and Derek Cheeseman of Mission Assist" --Title page verso. |
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Introduction. The territory and environment of Chuuk -- Body, mind, soul and spirit as the basic components underlying concepts of man in different societies and cultures -- Objectives, methods of gathering data, and the course of the field research -- The concept of body. The body as a whole -- The head -- The neck -- |
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The torso -- The extremities -- The skin -- Physical sensations -- The bones -- Sleep -- Death -- Conclusions -- The concepts of soul, mind and spirit. Foundational patterns of meaning and terms -- |
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Characteristics of the seat of the emotions, intellect and character (SEIC) -- Dispositions of the SEIC which are not types of meefi (capacities of the intellect and characteristics) -- Dispositions of the SEIC which are types of meefi -- The characteristic make-up of the terminology describing SEIC dispositions -- |
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The emergence of SEIC dispositions -- The term "spirit double" -- The spirit double of objects -- The world beyond of the Chuuk Islanders -- |
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Beings in the world beyond -- The two spirit doubles of a living person -- The two spirit doubles of a person after his physical death -- Contacts between the living and the spirits of the dead."Translated from German by Geoffrey Sutton and Derek Cheeseman of MissionAssist" -- |
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Title page veso."People in non- |
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western societies conceive of personhood and personality in ways which overlap with but are not at all identical with western (European, American) conceptions. In their desire to comprehend the concept of man belonging to different societies and cultures ethnographers mostly started from the features de |
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fining their own concept of man, including particularly their own concept of the soul, and looked for comparable elements in the culture they studied. In this way they did indeed find material which when pieced together produced something which had similarities with their own concept of man. But they w |
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ere for the most part blind to other features which defined over and above that notions of body, soul, mind and spirit in the cultural setting they stud |
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Moreover their knowledge of the language was limited.Often the result was a description containing serious gaps, possibly only contributing non-ied.essentials, falsely evaluating essentials, and in extreme cases leading to the conclusion that the foreign concept of body, |
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soul, mind and spirit was somehow identical with that of Europe and the West. |
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This study about the inhabitants of Chuuk (Federated States of Micronesia) in the Western Pacific is different. It starts strictly from the features |
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defining Chuukese concepts of personhood using the vocabulary and other features of their language in order to work out the so- |
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called emic categories the islanders use to make sense of the world which is their living space. |
| SUBJECT: |
Chuukese (Micronesian people)--Personhood and personalities. |
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Chuuk, Micronesia (Federated States)--Societies and cultures. |
| SUBJECT: |
Micronesia (Federated States)--Chuuk--Societies and cultures. |
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