ABSTRACT
The first part of this paper describes how Pacific peoples, including Indigenous Australians, locate emotions in part of the abdominal area, such as the belly, bowels, stomach or liver. For many, these bodily organs denote both the emotions and thoughts, showing how these dimensions formed an integrated process. The second part of the paper looks at how people in Mangaia and Aotearoa New Zealand expressed the particular feelings of grief, love and shame, using a selection of oral traditions recorded since the nineteenth century. The paper focuses on defining the lexicon for each emotion and how this language reveals individual people's actual experiences of such feelings.
