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Author Lutz, Catherine.

Title Unnatural emotions : everyday sentiments on a Micronesian atoll & their challenge to western theory / Catherine A. Lutz
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1988]
©1988

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Description xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Part 1 - Introduction -- 1. The Cultural Construction of Emotions -- 2. 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 -- 3. Emotion, Thought, and Estrangement: Western Discourses on Feeling -- Emotion against Thought, Emotion against Estrangement -- Emotion as the Irrational -- Emotion as Unintended and Uncontrollable Act -- Emotion as Danger and Vulnerability -- Emotion as Physicality -- Emotion as Natural Fact -- Emotion as Subjectivity -- Emotion as Female -- Emotion as Value -- 4. 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 -- 5. Need, Nurturance, and the Precariousness of Life on a Coral Atoll: The Emotion of Fago (Compasson/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 -- Emotion Meaning and Material Conditions on a Coral Atoll -- 6. 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 -- Anger, Song, Personal Restraint, and Moral Judgment -- Conclusion -- 7. The Cultural Construction of Danger -- The Nature of Danger -- Variations in the Perception of Threat -- The Things That Are Done with Fear -- 8. 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
Analysis Emotions
Micronesia
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 247-260
Subject Emotions.
Ethnopsychology -- Caroline Islands -- Ifalik Atoll
Ethnopsychology -- Micronesia (Federated States) -- Ifalik Atoll.
Ethnopsychology -- Micronesia -- Ifalik Atoll
Micronesians -- Psychology.
LC no. 88000329
ISBN 0226497216
0226497224 (paperback)