Emotions a cultural reader

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The cultural study of mood and meaning / Helena Wulff -- Exploring emotions -- Emotion, thought, and estrangement : emotion as a cultural category / Catherine A. Lutz -- Emotion talk across cultures / Paul Heelas -- Emotion, feelings and hedonics in the human brain / Morten L. Kringelbach -- Emotion (or life, the universe, everything) / Kay Milton -- Can happiness be taught? / Martin E. P. Seligman -- Exploring the managed heart / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Catholics, Protestants, and office workers from the town : the experience and negotiation of fear in Northern Ireland / Karen D. Lysaght -- Emotions in academia / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren -- The cartesian divide of the nation-state : emotion and bureaucratic logic / Don Handelman -- Love and hate -- Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Perilous passions : romantic love and love magic in Russia / Galina Lindquist -- Knowledge and the practice of love and hate among the enxet of Paraguay / Stephen W. Kidd -- Relations with the imagined child : the emotionality of becoming an adoptive parent in Norway / Signe Howell -- Anger, shame and grief -- Getting angry : the Jamesian theory of emotion in anthropology / Robert C. Solomon -- The shame of headhunters and the autonomy of self / Michelle Z. Rosaldo -- Grief and a headhunter's rage : on the cultural force of emotions / Renato Rosaldo -- Moving corpses : emotions and subject-object ambiguity / Maruka Svaek -- Desire and expectations -- Cool play : emotionality in dance as a resource in Senegalese urban women's associations / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach -- The performance hypothesis : practicing emotion in protected frames / William O. Beeman -- The emotional life of gay men : observations from New York / Moshe Shokeid -- From rational calculation to sensual experience : the marketing of emotions in advertising / Timothy D. Malefyt -- Emotional baggage : the meaning/feeling debate amongst tourists / Jonathan Skinner -- The emotional self and identity -- Person, time, and conduct in Bali / Clifford Geertz -- Emotions and the self : a theory of personhood and political order among Pintupi Aborigines / Fred R. Myers -- Rachel's emotional life : movement and identity / Nigel Rapport.