The Emotions A Cultural Reader [Hardcover]

Emotions are a loaded topic. From love and hate to grief, fear and envy, emotions are increasingly understood as driving forces in social life. The Emotions: A Cultural Reader applies a cross-cultural perspective on emotions. It examines the fact that emotions are socially and culturally constructed, while highlighting problems of comparison and translation of local terms and emotional experiences.

Are emotions cultural or universal? To what extent are there culturally distinct emotions? The Emotions closes the traditional Western gap where emotions are separated from rationality and thought: the heart versus mind debate. By presenting both classic essays and new cutting-edge chapters from anthropology, sociology and psychology with important contributions from philosophy and neuroscience, the volume connects a rich range of cross-cultural studies to form a thriving interdisciplinary debate on emotions.

Introduction: Into the Mood, Helena Wulff * I. Exploring Emotions * Preface, Helena Wulff * 1. Emotion Talk Across Cultures, Paul Heelas * 2. Emotion, Thought, and Estrangement: Emotion as a Cultural Category, Catherine Lutz * 3. Emotions, Feelings, and Hedonics in the Human Brain, Morten L. Kringelbach * 4. Emotion (or Life, the Universe, Everything), Kay Milton * 5. Can Happiness be Taught?, Martin E. P. Seligman * 6. Exploring the Managed Heart, Arlie Russell Hochschild * 7. Catholics, Protestants and Office Workers from the Town : The Experience and Negotiation of Fear in Northern Ireland, Karen D. Lysaght * 8. Emotions in Academia, Billy Ehn and Orvar L?fgren * 9. The Cartesian Divide of the Nation-State: Emotion and Bureaucratic Logic, Don Handelman * II. Love and Hate * Preface, Helena Wulff * 10. Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry, Lila Abu-Lughod * 11. Perilous Passions: Romantic Love and Love Magic in Russia, Galina Lindquist * 12. Relations with tlã-