Facehunting: Empathy, Masculinity and Violence among the Bugkalot

This article discusses how anthropological explorations of empathy can be enriched through a focus on transgression. Empathy is commonly understood as a human capacity that allows a person to share the feelings of others through some form of mental engagement. Thereby, it is believed, empathy estab...

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Main Author: Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Extreme Anthropology Research Network 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of Extreme Anthropology
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Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/JEA/article/view/4877