Anthropology of Empathy

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionDouglas W. Hollanand C. Jason ThroopPart I:  History and Fieldwork as Lenses on EmpathyChapter 1. Empathy, Ethnicity, and the Self among the Banabans in FijiElfriede HermannChapter 2. The Boundaries of Personhood, the Problem of Empathy, and “the Native’s Point of View” in the Outer IslandsMaria LepowskyPart II:  Universal and Particular Aspects of EmpathyChapter 3. Empathy and “As-If” Attachment in SamoaJeannette MageoChapter 4. Empathic Perception and Imagination Among the Asabano: Lessons for AnthropologyRoger LohmannPart III:  Personhood, Morality, and EmpathyChapter 5. Suffering, Empathy, and Ethical Subjectivity in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of MicronesiaC. Jason ThroopChapter 6. Do Anutans Empathize?:  Morality, Compassion, and Opacity of Other MindsRichard FeinbergChapter 7. Bosmun Foodways:  Emotional Reasoning in a PNG Life-WorldAnita von PoserPart IV:  Vicissitudes of EmpathyChapter 8. Vicissitudes of “Empathy” in a Rural Toraja VillageDouglas W. HollanAfterwordAlan RumseyBibliographyIndex

“This volume is not only of value to anthropologists; it is highly recommended for anybody involved in or preparing for cross-cultural work. It can help raise awareness of the importance and the limitation of cross-cultural empathy, encouraging quality fieldwork, as well as more research into empathy elsewhere in the world.”  ·  Missiology: An International Review