The emotions : a cultural reader /

Other Authors: Wulff, Helena
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Berg, 2007.
Edition:English ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The cultural study of mood and meaning / Helena Wulff
  • Exploring emotions
  • Emotion, thought, and estrangement : emotion as a cultural category / Catherine A. Lutz
  • Emotion talk across cultures / Paul Heelas
  • Emotion, feelings and hedonics in the human brain / Morten L. Kringelbach
  • Emotion (or life, the universe, everything) / Kay Milton
  • Can happiness be taught? / Martin E.P. Seligman
  • Exploring the managed heart / Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Catholics, Protestants and office workers from the town : the experience and negotiation of fear in Northern Ireland / Karen D. Lysaght
  • Emotions in academia / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren
  • The cartesian divide of the nation-state : emotion and bureaucratic logic / Don Handelman
  • Love and hate
  • Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry / Lila Abu-Lughod
  • Perilous passions : romantic love and love magic in Russia / Galina Lindquist
  • Knowledge and the practice of love and hate among the Enxet of Paraguay / Stephen W. Kidd
  • Relations with the imagined child : the emotionality of becoming an adoptive parent in Norway / Signe Howell
  • Anger, shame and grief
  • Getting angry : the Jamesian theory of emotion in anthropology / Robert C. Solomon
  • The shame of headhunters and the autonomy of self / Michelle Z. Rosaldo
  • Grief and a headhunter's rage : on the cultural force of emotions / Renato Rosaldo
  • Moving corpses : emotions and subject-object ambiguity / Maruska Svasek
  • Desire and expectations
  • 'Cool play' : emotionality in dance as a resource in Senegalese urban women's associations / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
  • The performance hypothesis : practicing emotion in protected frames / William O. Beeman
  • The emotional life of gay men : observations from New York / Moshe Shokeid
  • From rational calculation to sensual experience : the marketing of emotions in advertising / Timothy D. Malefyt
  • Emotional baggage : the meaning/feeling debate amongst tourists / Jonathan Skinner
  • The emotional self and identity
  • Person, time, and conduct in Bali / Clifford Geertz
  • Emotions and the self : a theory of personhood and political order among Pintupi Aborigines / Fred R. Myers
  • Rachel's emotional life : movement and identity / Nigel Rapport
  • Afterword / Robert A. LeVine.