Andrew Beatty

Emotional Worlds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first anthropological book in a generation to reconsider the nature of emotion, a cultural preoccupation of our age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781107020993
• ISBN-10: 1107020999
• Artikelnr.: 53934087

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.