Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century South Africa and 20th-century Europe, offering a broad and wide-ranging analysis of the interrelationships between honour, violence and emotions in history. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all researchers studying the relationship between violence and the emotions.>

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• Authors: Robert Cribb, Christophe Forth, Carolyn Strange, Strange Carolyn
• Assisted by: Robert Cribb (Editor), Christopher E. Forth (Editor), Carolyn Strange (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9781472519474
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1947-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Psychology: emotions, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history