ISBN:
9780226497211
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (286 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Unnatural Emotions : Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory
DDC:
155.8/0996/5
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part 1: Introduction""; ""Chapter One: The Cultural Construction of Emotions""; ""Chapter Two: Paths to Ifaluk""; ""The Genesis of the Project""; ""Historical Routes to Ifaluk""; ""One Anthropological Road""; ""An Approach to the Cross-Cultural Study of Emotion""; ""Part 2: Two Cultural Views of Emotion and Self""; ""Chapter Three: Emotion, Thought, and Estrangement: Western Discourses on Feeling""; ""Emotion against Thought, Emotion against Estrangement Emotion as the Irrational""; ""Emotion as Unintended and Uncontrollable Act""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Emotion as Danger and Vulnerability""""Emotion as Physicality""; ""Emotion as Natural Fact""; ""Emotion as Subjectivity""; ""Emotion as Female""; ""Emotion as Value""; ""Chapter Four: The Ethnopsychological Contexts of Emotion: Ifaluk Beliefs about the Person""; ""Ethnopsychology as a Domain of Study""; ""Person, Self, and Other: Categories of Agents and Variation in Consciousness""; ""Explaining and Evaluating Behavior""; ""Conclusion""; ""Part 3: Need, Violation, and Danger: Three Emotions in Everyday Life""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter Five: Need, Nurturance, and the Precariousness of Life on a Coral Atoll: The Emotion of Fago (Compassion/Love/Sadness)""""The Forms of Need and Nurturance""; ""Fago as Maturity, Nurturance as Power""; ""Fago, Compassion, Love, and Sadness: A Comparison of Two Emotional Meaning Systems""; ""Emotional Meaning and Material Conditions on a Coral Atoll""; ""Chapter Six: Morality, Domination, and the Emotion of ""Justifiable Anger""""; ""Moral Anger and Ifaluk Values""; ""Domination and the Ideological Role of Justifiable Anger""; ""The Scene that Constitutes Justifiable Anger""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Anger, Song, Personal Restraint, and Moral Judgment""""Conclusion""; ""Chapter Seven: The Cultural Construction of Danger""; ""The Nature of Danger""; ""Variation in the Perception of Threat""; ""The Things That Are Done with Fear""; ""Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Emotional Theories""; ""The First Construction: Local Theories of Emotion""; ""The Second Construction: Foreign Observers and Their Emotion Theories""; ""The Third Construction: Culture and Ideology in Academic Emotion Theory""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Maps""; ""1. The Caroline Islands""
Description / Table of Contents:
""2. Ifaluk Atoll""""Photographs""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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