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Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory (edit title/settings)

by Catherine Lutz (Author) (edit contributors)

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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

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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.

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