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Emotional Worlds : Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion, EPUB eBook

Emotional Worlds : Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion EPUB

Part of the New Departures in Anthropology series

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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.

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