Sisu – fińska emocja kulturowa i jej mitoanaliza w koncepcji R. Shwedera
Sisu – Finnish cultural emotion and its myth analysis according to R. Shweder’s concept

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to examine the meaning of the Finnish cultural emotion sisu (“perseverance”, “courage”, “stubborn”, “determination”) and reads it through the paradigm of R. Shweder’s cultural psychology of emotions. The reading of emotions as culturally constructed scripts and applying myth analysis (Shweder, Haidt, 2005) should yield a new framework for examination and adequate comprehension of cultural emotions. The study attempts to expose that by decomposing an emotion--script into its constituent narrative slots, one can make visible the cultural underpinnings of emotions even such indefinable as sisu.

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