Encounters with emotions : negotiating cultural differences since early modernity
Title:
Encounters with emotions : negotiating cultural differences since early modernity
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen and Margrit Pernau.
Publication Information:
New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 308 pages)
ISBN:
9781789202243
Abstract:
"Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other's emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note:
JSTOR
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: Encountering feelings : feeling encounters / Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen, Margrit Pernau -- Missionaries : false reverence, irreverence and the rethinking of Christian mission in China and India / Stephen Cummins, Joel Lee -- Travellers : transformative journeys and emotional contacts / Edgar Cabanas, Razak Khan, Jani Marjanen -- Anthropologists : feelings in the field / Pascal Eitler, Joseph Ben Prestel -- Entrepreneurs : encountering trust in business relations / Agnes Arndt -- Diplomats : kneeling and the protocol of humiliation / Ute Frevert -- Occupiers and civilians : facing the enemy / Philipp Nielsen -- Prisoners : experiencing the criminal other / Pavel Vasilyev, Gian Marco Vidor -- Monsters : emotional incoherence and familial murder / Daphne Rozenblatt -- Performers : from "courtesans" to Kathakali King Lear / Kedar A. Kulkarni -- Lovers and friends : encounters of hearts and bodies / Margrit Pernau -- Conclusion: After encounters with feelings : outcomes and further issues / Benno Gammerl.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2019).