"An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all those concerned with the understanding of human emotions."—Karl G. Heider, American Anthropologist
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An interesting book asserting emotions are culturally constructed. Lutz did fieldwork on Ifaluk, a Micronesian atoll, & studied the Ifaluk coneption of emotions & of the self. Ifaluk ethnopsychology includes such emotions as fago 'love/sadness/compassion', song 'justified anger', ker 'excitement/happiness/anger' & rus 'anxiety/panic/surprise.' What exactly does classing emotions differently mean? Do the Ifaluk people just call them different things? Do they *feel* different things than we do? What does it all mean? I am fascinated although not entirely convinced by this book. My grad school advisor suggests there are certain basic sort of proto-emotions that are generated by hormones & things basic to all human beings, but that how these are shaped & perceived depends on culture. Anyway, this is a really interesting book, & a good read (well-written). I highly recommend it.
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At first blush, nothing might appear more natural and hence less cultural than emotions, nothing more private and hence less amenable to public scrutiny, nothing more inchoate and less compatible with the logos of social science. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethnopsychological propositions, justifiably angry person, word fago, ethnopsychological knowledge, term fago, interisland ship, justifiable anger, taro gardens, other atolls, emotional theories, confined mother, emotion concepts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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At first blush, nothing might appear more natural and hence less cultural than emotions, nothing more private and hence less amenable to public scrutiny, nothing more inchoate and less compatible with the logos of social science. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethnopsychological propositions, justifiably angry person, word fago, ethnopsychological knowledge, term fago, interisland ship, justifiable anger, taro gardens, other atolls, emotional theories, confined mother, emotion concepts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Peace Corps, World War New!
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- Theories of Emotion (Emotion: Theory, Research, and Experience, 1) by Robert Plutchik on 4 pages
- Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Dorothy Holland in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy (Culture, Illness and Healing) by Anthony J. Marsella in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Person, Self, and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies by Geoffrey White in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1978, Volume 26: Human Emotion by Nebraska Symposium in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations by John Corrigan on page 216, page 242, and page 266
- God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission by R. Marie Griffith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture by Professor Nancy J. Chodorow on page 150, and Back Matter
- Social perspectives on emotion, Volume 2 (Social Perspectives on Emotions) by William M. Wentworth on page 232, and page 307
- Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles by Saurabh Dube in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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