Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions
Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions
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Are emotions innate or learned? Are they the same everywhere, or culturally variable? Research on the emotions tends to be polarised between neo-Darwinian and culturalist perspectives. In this volume, first published in 1999, biological and cultural anthropologists attempt to transcend the traditional oppositions, proposing various strategies for integrating biological and cultural approaches to the study of emotion. They discuss a variety of fascinating ethnographic examples, covering topics that range from the effects of music to the relationships between emotion and respiration. The editor's introduction provides a lucid review of the state of the field.
- One of the first edited books by anthropologists on emotion, and the first to explore specifically how biological and cultural factors are involved
- Examines basic questions about human nature and emotion
Product details
December 1999Paperback
9780521655699
384 pages
229 × 152 × 20 mm
0.51kg
5 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: developing a biocultural approach to the emotions Alexander Laban Hinton
- Part I. Local Biology:
- 2. Emotions Carol M. Worthman
- 3. Toward an understanding of the universality of second order emotions Daniel M. T. Fassler
- 4. Steps to an evolutionary ecology of mind James Chisholm
- Part II. Embodiment:
- 5. Music hath charms … fragments toward constructionist biocultural theory Iain D. Edgewater
- 6. Emotion and embodiment Margot L. Lyon
- Part III. Biocultural Synergy:
- 7. Affecting experience: toward a biocultural model of human emotions Keith McNeal
- 8. Making symbols meaningful: a role of human emotions Este Armstrong
- 9. Brain and emotion relations in culturally diverse populations Lee Blonder
- Part. IV. Systems Theory:
- 10. Outline of a bioculturally-based 'processual' approach to the emotions Alexander Laban Hinton
- 11. Emotion: a biogenetic structural approach Charles Laughlin and Jason Throop.
