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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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1997
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ronald N. Johnson ; 1995
- Field Date
- Dec. 1981-May 1983
- Coverage Date
- 1982-1983
- Coverage Place
- south Celebes, Indonesia
- Notes
- Douglas Hollan
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-71)
- LCCN
- 73643517
- LCSH
- Toraja (Indonesian people)