Places as Triggers for Socially Adequate Emotional Conduct

Abstract

I would now like to describe the day from D.’s point of view before I relate how it ended. D. got up early, cut his palm trees and went to the men’s house to shower before the day’s business got underway. The young men often first go for a swim in the morning and come home at about 10 a.m. to have breakfast, when the children are in school and the women in the gardens. D. already had gone beforehand to his grandmother’s house to give the start signal for the concerted efforts for A.’s birthday. In the men’s house, he then heard the details of the joint fishing trip planned for today and had a rest. When A. had gone to school, D. went home. To begin with, he wanted to avoid meeting A. as far as possible because the good wishes and celebrations were planned for the afternoon and evening and he did not want to spoil the suspense with half-hearted congratulations in the morning.