Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part 1
5. Ritual, Affect, and Transitional Phenomena 3
6. The Wedding Haka 7
7. Spoken Emotions 11
8. Making Palaver 13
9. Crossing the Water 16
10. Positions, Dispositions, and Transpositions 37
11. The Raw Material of Ritual 40
12. Initiation and Rebellion 45
13. Ritualization 51
14. The Weather of the Heart 57
15. Sacrifice 62
16. Surviving Loss and Remaking the World 72
17. Death’s Aftermath 74
18. Burial 76
19. Quarantine 78
20. Role Reversals and Mimetic Rites 81
21. Being a Part of and Being Apart From 86
22. Coping with Crisis 90
23. Part 2
24. The Dynamics of Kinship 99
25. Kinship and Scarcity 105
26. Birth 108
27. Relative Distance 111
28. Husbands and Wives 121
29. Elder Brother– Younger Brother 131
30. Joking and Avoidance 137
31. Existential Inequity: Favoritism, Fathers and Sons, and Fadenye 144
32. The Emotional Life of Stories 151
33. Force Fields 157
34. Political Emotions 167
35. The Ferensola Story 172
36. Words and Deeds 182
37. Coda: Emotions in the Field 191
38. Acknowledgments 203
39. Notes 205
40. Index 233