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In the early days of psychological anthropology, the study of emotions was principally a cataloguing task: a typical endeavor consisted in identifying emotion terms in the language of the community that the anthropologist studied, and in attempting to arrive at a definition for each term. The resulting catalogue could then be compared with similar catalogues from other societies, and the similarities and differences that transpired from such comparisons would form the basis of hypotheses about the universality or cultural specificity of emotion categories.
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Besnier, N. (1995). The Politics of Emotion in Nukulaelae Gossip. In: Russell, J.A., Fernández-Dols, JM., Manstead, A.S.R., Wellenkamp, J.C. (eds) Everyday Conceptions of Emotion. NATO ASI Series, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8484-5_12
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