Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Emotional Worlds Beyond An Anthropology Of Emotion
Author(s): Beatty Andrew (Brunel University)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781107605374
Pages: 314 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 3/28/2019
Series: New Departures in Anthropology
Category: Social, Group Or Collective Psychology