Encounters with emotions : negotiating cultural differences since early modernity / edited by Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen and Margrit Pernau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gammerl, Benno.

Contributor:

Gammerl, Benno, editor.

Nielsen, Philipp, editor.

Pernau, Margrit, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--History.

Intercultural communication.

Emotions--Social aspects--History.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction. Encountering Feelings – Feeling Encounters

Chapter 1. Missionaries: False Reverence, Irreverence and the Rethinking of Christian Mission in China and India

Chapter 2. Travellers: Transformative Journeys and Emotional Contacts

Chapter 3. Anthropologists: Feelings in the Field

Chapter 4. Entrepreneurs: Encountering Trust in Business Relations

Chapter 5. Diplomats: Kneeling and the Protocol of Humiliation

Chapter 6. Occupiers and Civilians: Facing the Enemy

Chapter 7. Prisoners: Experiencing the Criminal Other

Chapter 8. ‘Monsters’: Emotional Incoherence and Familial Murder

Chapter 9. Performers: From ‘Courtesans’ to Kathakali King Lear

Chapter 10. Lovers and Friends: Encounters of Hearts and Bodies

Conclusion. After Encounters with Feelings: Outcomes and Further Issues

Index of Subjects

Index of Names and Places

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789202243

1789202248

OCLC:

1089839115