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Managing turbulent hearts : a Balinese formula for living

Unni Wikan
Print Book, English, 1990
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1990
xxvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226896786, 9780226896809, 0226896781, 0226896803
21948938
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond Spectacle and Bright Face
Part One: Experience and Its Interpretation
1. Grief, Gaiety, and Laughter
2. Interpreting Everyday Practice
Part Two: Bridgings, and Cares Carried Across
3. Hidden Hearts and Bright Faces
4. Movement in Social Space
5. Could People See All Would Perish from Fright
6. Managing the Heart
To Please as Virtue Pleases
Part Three: Feeling-Thoughts, Morality, and Health
7. Feeling-Thoughts and Their Interpretation
8. Laughter, Sadness, and Death Reconsidered
9. Vitality and Health
Part Four: Coping with the Suffering Life Inevitably Brings
10. Finding a Way Out of Sadness
11. Power, a Fight for Freedom, and Covert Violence
12. At the Balian's: Seeking Relief for Life's Strains and Stresses
13. The Power to Heal
Part Five: Culture and Translation
14. Going Beyond the Words: A Plea for Resonance
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Balinese (Indonesian people) Social life and customs, Balinese (Indonesian people) Social conditions, Philosophy, Balinese