Unnatural Emotions

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ISBN: 9780226497228 | 0226497224
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Copyright: 8/1/1988

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"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

Acknowledgments

PART 1 Introduction

The Cultural Construction of Emotions

(11)

Paths to Ifaluk

(39)

The Genesis of the Project

(4)

Historical Routes to Ifaluk

(12)

One Anthropological Road

(9)

An Approach to the Cross-Cultural Study of Emotion

(13)

PART 2 Two Cultural Views of Emotion and Self

Emotion, Thought, and Estrangement: Western Discourses on Feeling

(28)

Emotion against Thought, Emotion against Estrangement

(4)

Emotion as the Irrational

(3)

Emotion as Unintended and Uncontrollable Act

(2)

Emotion as Danger and Vulnerability

(1)

Emotion as Physicality

(1)

Emotion as Natural Fact

(4)

Emotion as Subjectivity

(3)

Emotion as Female

(3)

Emotion as Value

(5)

The Ethnopsychological Contexts of Emotion: Ifaluk Beliefs about the Person

(38)

Ethnopsychology as a Domain of Study

(3)

Person, Self, and Other: Categories of Agents and Variation in Consciousness

(16)

Explaining and Evaluating Behavior

102

(13)

Conclusion

115

(4)

PART 3 Need, Violation, and Danger: Three Emotions in Everyday Life

Need, Nurturance, and the Precariousness of Life on a Coral Atoll: The Emotion of Fago (Compassion/Love/Sadness)

119

(36)

The Forms of Need and Nurturance

121

(19)

Fago as Maturity, Nurturance as Power

140

(4)

Fago, Compassion, Love, and Sadness: A Comparison of Two Emotional Meaning Systems

144

(5)

Emotional Meaning and Material Conditions on a Coral Atoll

149

(6)

Morality, Domination, and the Emotion of ``Justifiable Anger''

155

(28)

Moral Anger and Ifaluk Values

157

(11)

Domination and the Ideological Role of Justifiable Anger

168

(6)

The Scene that Constitutes Justifiable Anger

174

(3)

Anger, Song, Personal Restraint, and Moral Judgment

177

(4)

Conclusion

181

(2)

The Cultural Construction of Danger

183

(26)

The Nature of Danger

184

(19)

Variation in the Perception of Threat

203

(2)

The Things That Are Done with Fear

205

(4)

Conclusion: Emotional Theories

209

(18)

The First Construction: Local Theories of Emotion

209

(6)

The Second Construction: Foreign Observers and Their Emotion Theories

215

(4)

The Third Construction: Culture and Ideology in Academic Emotion Theory

219

(8)

Epilogue

227

(2)

Notes

229

(18)

References

247

(14)

Index

261

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Unnatural Emotions

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