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At the time of my fieldwork-in a mountain village in Toraja, Indonesia1 –Indo’na ’Mother of Sapan2 was around 38–40 years old, divorced, and living with her mother and stepfather. Indo’na Sapan was an intelligent and attractive person with an engaging smile; she was also, by Toraja standards and by her own account, a relatively shy person. Her social status according to the village ranking system was lower middle class. Early on in my fieldwork, Indo’na Sapan often took the time to talk to me about village matters and other topics. Later, I came to know Indo’na Sapan well over the course of a series of tape-recorded “life-history” interviews I conducted with her.
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Wellenkamp, J.C. (1995). Everyday Conceptions of Distress. In: Russell, J.A., Fernández-Dols, JM., Manstead, A.S.R., Wellenkamp, J.C. (eds) Everyday Conceptions of Emotion. NATO ASI Series, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8484-5_15
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