Suffering, empathy, and ethical modalities of being in yap (waqab), federated states of Micronesia

The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 119-150

  Jason Throop, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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