Anthropological theory of emotion is a complex dimension of the study of human behavior
and culture at large. Ethnographic methodologies work particularly well in trying to …

Emotion-related words differ across societies and eras. Does this mean that emotions
themselves differ in similar ways? Three perspectives on language-emotion relations …

Linguistic anthropologists have studied emotion in societies around the world for several
decades. This article defines the discipline, introduces its general relevance to emotion …

Theoretical accounts regarding the nature of human emotion, which include the
physiological, cognitive, and expressive elements of emotional experience, tend to …

methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways in which ideas about and
experiences of emotion are shaped by linguistic encounters and vice versa. Including …

In this collection of original essays by anthropologists concerned with the relationship of
language and emotion, it is argued that the key locus to the study of emotion might be the …

In their introduction to an early edited collection of anthropological articles that challenged
the primacy of philosophical and psychological perspectives in the study of emotion, Lutz …

I argue that an increased theoretical literacy on emotion-related phenomena increases the
authority and scientific evidence of ethnographic narratives. Solid emotion theory assists …

When the 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope wrote:'Unlearn'd, he knew no
schoolman's subtle art,/No language, but the language of the heart'(Pope, 1930: 180; quoted …

This commentary discusses the article “The Many Meanings/Aspects of Emotion: Definitions,
Functions, Activation, and Regulation” by Carroll Izard (2010). Reading the article from the …