The emotions : a cultural reader / edited by Helena Wulff.

Other author Wulff, Helena.
Format Book
EditionEnglish ed.
Publication InfoOxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Descriptionxi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects

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 / Maruška Svašek -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007043706
ISBN9781845203672 (cloth)
ISBN1845203674 (cloth)
ISBN9781845203689 (pbk.)
ISBN1845203682 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BF531 .E5113 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold