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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 January 2019
      07 February 2019
      ISBN:
      9781139108096
      9781107020993
      9781107605374
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139108096
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 314 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, Psychology
      Series:
      New Departures in Anthropology
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology: General Interest, Anthropology, Psychology
    Series:
    New Departures in Anthropology
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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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    ‘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

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