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Staying 'cool' in Toraja: informal strategies for the management of anger and hostility in a nonviolent society

Ethos • 16 (1) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 52-72

By: Hollan, Douglas.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

Douglas Hollan examines informal strategies for the control of anger and hostility among the Toraja of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Toraja disvalue anger and hostility and control overtly aggressive behavior through a number of cultural practices. Hollan shows that despite this disvaluation, anger and hostility are not infrequently aroused in day-to-day contexts and that individual actors use well-developed notions about the 'hotness' of anger and how such anger must be 'cooled' in order to manage and control their subjective emotional states.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Drives and emotions

Ethnopsychology

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Southern Toraja

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

1997

RegionThe area the document pertains to

Asia

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Southeast Asia

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

article

Evaluation

Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Ethnologist

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Ronald N. Johnson ; 1995

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

Dec. 1981-May 1983

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

1982-1983

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

south Celebes, Indonesia

NotesAdditional notes

Douglas Hollan

Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-71)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

73643517

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Toraja (Indonesian people)