Intriguing. Animals experience a kind of excitement manifested in very
specific manifestations like fur standing on end, increased heart-rate,
etc., which are triggered when physically threatened by one of their own
species. If human beings don't experience it, then I can only think that
what is going on is a suppression of the reaction.
What do you think?
(Normally I abhor "natural scientific" approaches to social interaction,
but I guess I'm trying to find exactly where that connection between
action-motivation and cognitive structures happens. Vygotsky's work seems
to be fully inclusive of association of reactions, etc., inclusive of
cognitive development.)
Andy
At 08:08 PM 8/01/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Andy and everybody
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>Although, anger seems to be an obviouslyuniversal human feeling some
>authors disagree with that. Specifically, I think about the following book
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>Briggs, J. L. (1970). Never in anger: Portrait of an Eskimo family.
>Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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>Jean Briggs is an anthropologist who studied an Intuit community. She
>argues and provides evidence that this community never experiences anger.
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>I read the book and found it is very interesting and convincing. But Im
>not an anthropologist and I do not know where the field is with regard to
>Briggsclaim. Id appreciate if some knowledgeable people educate me about that.
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>Thanks,
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>Eugene
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>From: IRAJ IMAM [mailto:iimam@cal-research.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:32 PM
>To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: RE: the psychology of dissent
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>Can anyone tell me what exactly are those small range of distinct
>emotional feelings?
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>Fear is obviously one; anger; I have heard that shame is in common with
>the animals; joy.
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>Can people help me with this one?
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>Andy
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>HI Andy,
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>Thomas J. Scheff of UC Santa Barbara has written books on the Sociology
>of Emotions. He and her wife see shame as a basic emotion that is the base
>for violence at interpersonal and in inter-group levels.
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>Scheff, T. J. (1977) The distancing of emotion in ritual. Current
>AnthropologyVol 18. No.3:483-504.
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>Scheff, T. J. (1979) Catharsis in Healing Ritual, and Drama. Berkely:
>Iniversity of California Press.
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>Scheff, T.J. (1990) Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion and Social
>Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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>iraj
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