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Shame, Knowing, and Anthropology: On Robert I. Levy and the Study of Emotion
Author(s) -
SIMON GREGORY M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1525/eth.2005.33.4.493
Subject(s) - shame , personhood , ethnography , sociology , emotion work , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , anthropology , philosophy
Robert I. Levy's ethnographic and theoretical work has offered complex ways to consider emotions as neither universal and invariant nor purely constructs of culture. Shame emotions, which seem to fit uncomfortably into our own concepts of personhood, have offered puzzles for ethnographers to which Levy's insights can be fruitfully applied.