I-VI -- Introduction -- Testing emotional universals in Amharic -- Emotions and the nature of persons in Mbula -- Why Germans don't feel "anger" -- Linguistic evidence for a Lao perspective on facial expression of emotion -- Hati: A key word in the Malay vocabulary of emotion -- Talking about anger in Central Australia -- Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words -- Concepts of anger in Chinese -- Human emotions viewed through the Russian language -- A culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro (pron. pshickro) -- An inquiry into "sadness" in Chinese -- Subject and name index -- Words and phrases index