情感的社会建构
The social construction of emotions
英国电影人 Lewis Waller 在视频随笔中借两部人类学著作论证：情感并非生物硬编码的普遍现象，而是经由社会文化语境不断建构的。他讨论了 Jean Briggs 1970 年的《Never in Anger》与 Catherine Lutz 1988 年的《Unnatural Emotions》，并将其置于殖民历史与近期研究的背景下，指出西方曾以情感普遍且生物化的观念为殖民辩护。
Western imperialism was often justified as a moral imperative – colonising countries had a duty to civilise the ‘savages’ they encountered oceans away. This ‘white man’s burden’, as the English writer Rudyard Kipling called it, partially hinged on the notion that emotions are universal and biological, existing on a continuum between the refined rationality of Europeans and the uncontrolled emotionality of those they colonised.
In this video essay, the UK filmmaker Lewis Waller discusses two works of anthropology that challenged this paradigm: Never in Anger (1970), the US anthropologist Jean Briggs’s portrait of an Utku Inuit family, and Unnatural Emotions (1988), the US anthropologist Catherine Lutz’s account of emotions on Ifaluk Atoll in Micronesia. Placing these works in the context of the colonial past and more recent research, Waller makes the case that emotions aren’t biologically hardwired and universal, but filtered through sociocultural contexts and constantly being constructed.
来源：Psyche · psyche.co
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