Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Harding (editor), E. Deidre Pribram (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader

brings together the best examples of recent and cutting-edge work on emotions in cultural studies and related disciplines. The book differentiates between theoretical traditions and ways of understanding emotion in relation to culture, subjectivity and power, thus mapping a new academic territory and providing a succinct overview of cultural studies as well as studies of emotion.

The collection provides students with an essential overview of contemporary academic debate within the humanities and social sciences on the place of emotions in culture, as part of everyday individual, cultural, and political life.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Cultural Study of Mood and Meaning by Helena Wulff
PART I: EXPLORING EMOTIONS
1. Emotion, Thought, and Estrangement: Emotion as a Cultural Category by Catherine A. Lutz
2. Emotion Talk across Cultures by Paul Heelas
3. Emotion, Feelings and Hedonics in the Human Brain by Morten L. Kringelbach
4. Emotion (or Life, The Universe, Everything) by Kay Milton
5. Can Happiness Be Taught? by Martin E. P. Seligman
6. Exploring the Managed Heart by Arlie Russell Hochschild
7. Catholics, Protestants and Office Workers from the Town: The Experience and Negotiation of Fear in Northern Ireland by Karen D. Lysaght
8. Emotions in Academia by Billy Ehn and Orvar Lofgren
9. The Cartesian Divide of the Nation-State: Emotion and Bureaucratic Logic by Don Handelman
PART II: LOVE AND HATE
10. Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry by Lila Abu-Lughod
11. Perilous Passions: Romantic Love and Love Magic in Russia by Galina Lindquist
12. Knowledge and the Practice of Love and Hate Among the Enxet of Paraguay by Stephen W. Kidd
13. Relations with the Imagined Child: The Emotionality of Becoming an AdoptiveParent in Norway BY Signe Howell
PART III: ANGER, SHAME AND GRIEF
14. Getting Angry: The Jamesian Theory of Emotion in Anthropology by Robert C. Solomon
15. The Shame of Headhunters and the Autonomy of Self by Michelle Z. Rosaldo
16. Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage: On the Cultural Force of Emotions by Renato Rosaldo
17. Moving Corpses: Emotions and Subject-Object Ambiguity by Maruska Svasek
PART IV: DESIRE AND EXPECTATIONS
18. 'Cool Play': Emotionality in Dance as a Resource in Senegalese Urban Women’s Associations by Helene Neveu Kringelbach
19. The Performance Hypothesis: Practicing Emotions in Protected Frames by William O. Beeman
20. The Emotional Life of Gay Men: Observations from New York by Moshe Shokeid
21. From Rational Calculation to Sensual Experience: The Marketing of Emotions in Advertising by Timothy de Waal Malefyt
22. Emotional Baggage: The Meaning/Feeling Debate amongst Tourists by Jonathan Skinner
PART V: THE EMOTIONAL SELF AND IDENTITY
23. Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali by Clifford Geertz
24. Emotions and the Self: A Theory of Personhood and Political Order Among Pintupi Aborigines by Fred R. Myers
25. Rachel’s Emotional Life: Movement and Identity by Nigel Rapport
Afterword by Robert A. LeVine
Contributors
Copyright Permissions
Index