"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

xi

PART 1 Introduction

The Cultural Construction of Emotions

3

(11)

Paths to Ifaluk

14

(39)

The Genesis of the Project

15

(4)

Historical Routes to Ifaluk

19

(12)

One Anthropological Road

31

(9)

An Approach to the Cross-Cultural Study of Emotion

40

(13)

PART 2 Two Cultural Views of Emotion and Self

Emotion, Thought, and Estrangement: Western Discourses on Feeling

53

(28)

Emotion against Thought, Emotion against Estrangement

55

(4)

Emotion as the Irrational

59

(3)

Emotion as Unintended and Uncontrollable Act

62

(2)

Emotion as Danger and Vulnerability

64

(1)

Emotion as Physicality

65

(1)

Emotion as Natural Fact

66

(4)

Emotion as Subjectivity

70

(3)

Emotion as Female

73

(3)

Emotion as Value

76

(5)

The Ethnopsychological Contexts of Emotion: Ifaluk Beliefs about the Person

81

(38)

Ethnopsychology as a Domain of Study

83

(3)

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

86

(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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