Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion

ISBN-13: 9781107605374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 314 str.

Andrew Beatty

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Andrew Beatty has produced a subtle, literate and humane account of how emotions are expressed, narrated and construed in very different societies. The study of emotions in context, set in narrative frameworks, demands a very special ethnographic engagement and empathy, but as Beatty argues, 'the field reveals what the lab and the library cannot'. Presenting ethnographic case studies, some based on his own extensive fieldwork in Indonesia, drawing on wide reading in anthropology and psychology, Beatty's moving, insightful book transcends disciplinary boundaries.' Adam Kuper, Boston University

Spis treści

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.