High Voltage (Emotions Part 2)

Invisibilia

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🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Can you discover an emotion? We travel to the jungles of the Philippines where an anthropologist named Renato Rosaldo lived with the Ilongots, an isolated tribe of headhunters. There he learns about legit, an emotion so intense, and varied, and scary to him, that he can't really map onto the usual palette of American emotions. It takes many years, and a shocking and tragic event, for Rosaldo to fully grasp legut. Then we follow a young woman who does something on dates that virtually guarantees their failure. Along the way , she gains insight into her own emotions, and those of a generation of kids raised to be happy.

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0:00.0	Hey, before we get started, if you haven't heard it, you should listen to Up First, the
0:05.2	Morning News Podcast from NPR.
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0:18.9	you listen to podcasts.
0:25.9	This is where our story about the discovery of an emotion ends, with a man howling in
0:35.3	a car in California alone, but free in a strange way.
0:43.4	Or anyway, more free than he was before he found the emotion.
0:48.8	Welcome to Invisibiliya, part two of the Emotion Show.
1:01.1	I'm Hannah Rosen.
1:02.1	And I'm Elise Spiegel.
1:03.4	Invisibiliya is a show about all of the invisible forces that shape human behavior, our thoughts,
1:09.2	our beliefs, our concepts.
1:11.8	And we have been talking a lot about emotions, more specifically how our concepts shape our
1:17.0	emotions.
1:18.4	If you want to fully understand what I'm talking about, go listen to part one of the episode,
1:22.8	but it's not required.
1:24.0	We have plenty of listening pleasure ahead, including a rom-com about throw-up.
1:29.2	But first, anthropologists were not a result of a hunt-stand or feeling and feels the hunt.
1:40.7	Elise tells the story, Abbey Wendell produced.
1:44.3	To tell this story, we have to go back to the 1960s and the world of mid-century anthropology
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