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Looking over the papers I have written on Inuit emotion concepts over the years, in preparation for this workshop, I realized that I had moved to some extent in the way I looked at emotion. In this paper I will thread my various experiences with the study of emotion on a chronological string and talk about what I have learned from studying emotions in a variety of ways. To illustrate my points, I will focus primarily on problems of understanding Utkuhikhalingmiut Inuit ‘attachment’ emctions.
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Briggs, J.L. (1995). The Study of Inuit Emotions. 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_11
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