ROSIN: We think and obsess about them endlessly. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Notice the feeling you get.
ROSIN: These days, our culture spends a ton of time talking about emotions. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: You need to learn how to overcome fear. ROSIN: Emotions - you don't have to be a professional emotion discoverer like Renato to have thought a lot about them. ROSALDO: (Laughter) My first answer's no. ROSIN: And are you glad you have that knowledge? It overwhelmed him, just came rushing out. In fact, it wasn't until about a decade after he was introduced to liget that what the emotion truly was in all of its intensity finally became clear. SPIEGEL: There was something missing in Renato, something that wouldn't allow him to feel liget - some absence. In fact, liget was so complicated that even though Renato spoke to members of the community about liget over and over and over again for years, he felt he was never able to understand or truly feel what they were feeling. No, liget was way more complicated and disquieting and intense. But liget is not like anger or joy or fear, emotions that pretty easily cross cultural borders. SPIEGEL: For a small group of communities in the Philippines, this emotion of liget was central, one of the most important feelings in their culture. So it's liget, almost like gut, your stomach, right? RENATO ROSALDO (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY): Liget. What is the name of the emotion that you discovered?
I honestly didn't even know that was a thing. But until Hanna and I talked to the anthropologist Renato Rosaldo, I'd never talked to anyone who had discovered a new emotion. There are people who discover new birds, new flowers. ALIX SPIEGEL (HOST): There are people who discover new planets.
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