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Article: Lonely Ranchers, Solitary Students, and Angry Governors: Personal Vulnerability and Community Conflict in Yaqui Emotion Talk
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- Western Folklore
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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ABSTRACT
This article explores emotion discourses in a northern Mexican community. For Yaqui Indians, extreme emotional states are considered perilous: "anger" and "sadness" threaten community and jeopardize the self. The folklore of emotion - verbal acts and cautionary tales - reveals Yaqui emotion-talk to be an intersubjective, deeply significant commentary on humanness itself.
KEYWORDS: folk belief, Indian, Yaqui, emotion, cautionary tales
In the spring of 2002, I returned to Potam, the desert town in which I had lived for fourteen months in the late 1990s while conducting ethnographic research on narrative and identity formation among the Yaquis, a Mexican indigenous tribe. Located in ...