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For anthropologists, the workshop’s focus on everyday concepts of emotion (and their embeddedness in broader networks of knowledge) translates into a concern with everyday concepts of emotions held by members of different sociocultural groups, i.e., with “ethnotheories” of emotion.1 By “ethnotheory,” I mean implicit as well as explicit ideas, assumptions, and attitudes about emotion, including, for example, terms and metaphors concerning emotions, ideas and assumptions about the causes and consequences of emotions, beliefs about life-cycle changes in emotions, and so forth. Anthropological interest in ethnotheories of emotion and more generally, in the “ethnopsychologies” of different sociocultural groups--that is, theories and assumptions about emotions, the mind, behavior, personality, and the like--is of relatively recent origin.
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Wellenkamp, J.C. (1995). Introduction. 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_9
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