Emotional Worlds
Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion
Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-60537-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-60537-4 (ISBN)
Emotional Worlds is the first anthropological work in a generation to reconsider the nature of emotion, a preoccupation of our age. Adopting a narrative approach, it explores cultural worlds from the intimate perspective of the emotional life, showing how emotions tell a story, shaping lives, transforming situations and colouring experience.
Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the world, and in dialogue with current work in psychology and philosophy, Andrew Beatty develops an anthropological perspective on the affective life, showing how emotions colour experience and transform situations; how, in turn, they are shaped by culture and history. In stark contrast with accounts that depend on lab simulations, interviews, and documentary reconstruction, he takes the reader into unfamiliar cultural worlds through a 'narrative' approach to emotions in naturalistic settings, showing how emotions tell a story and belong to larger stories. Combining richly detailed reporting with a careful critique of alternative approaches, he argues for an intimate grasp of local realities that restores the heartbeat to ethnography.
Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the world, and in dialogue with current work in psychology and philosophy, Andrew Beatty develops an anthropological perspective on the affective life, showing how emotions colour experience and transform situations; how, in turn, they are shaped by culture and history. In stark contrast with accounts that depend on lab simulations, interviews, and documentary reconstruction, he takes the reader into unfamiliar cultural worlds through a 'narrative' approach to emotions in naturalistic settings, showing how emotions tell a story and belong to larger stories. Combining richly detailed reporting with a careful critique of alternative approaches, he argues for an intimate grasp of local realities that restores the heartbeat to ethnography.
Andrew Beatty teaches anthropology at Brunel University. He has carried out five years' fieldwork in Indonesia and is the author of four other books, including After the Ancestors: An Anthropologist's Story (Cambridge, 2015).
Introduction; Part I. Groundings: 1. Emotions in the field: recognition and location; 2. Nias: emotions dramatised; 3. Java: emotions analysed; Part II. Narrative: 4. The case for narrative; 5. Persons and particulars; 6. The narrative understanding of emotion; 7. Writing emotion; Part III. Perspectives: 8. Affect: a wrong turn?; 9. Concepts, words, feelings; 10. The uses of empathy; Conclusion.
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.02.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Departures in Anthropology |
Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 151 x 228 mm |
Gewicht | 460 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-107-60537-7 / 1107605377 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-60537-4 / 9781107605374 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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