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Emotions have emerged as a topic of interest across the disciplines, yet studies and findings on emotions tend to fall into two camps: body versus brain, nature versus nurture. Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes offers a unique collaboration across the biological/social divide-from psychology and neuroscience to cultural anthropology and sociology-as 15 noted researchers develop a common language, theoretical basis, and methodology for examining this most sociocognitive aspect of our lives. Starting with our evolutionary past and continuing into our modern world of social classes and norms, these multidisciplinary perspectives reveal the complex interplay of biological, social, cultural, and personal factors at work in emotions, with particular emphasis on the nuances involved in pride and shame.
A sampling of the topics: (1) The roles of the brain in emotional processing. (2) Emotional development milestones in childhood. (3) Social feeling rules and the experience of loss. (4) Emotions as commodities? The management of feelings and the self-help industry. (5) Honor and dishonor: societal and gender manifestations of pride and shame. (6) Emotion regulation and youth culture. (7) Pride and shame in the classroom.
A volume of such wide and integrative scope as Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes should attract a large cohort of readers on both sides of the debate, among them emotion researchers, social and developmental psychologists, sociologists, social anthropologists, and others who analyze the links between humans that on the one hand differentiate us as individuals but on the other hand tie us to our socio-cultural worlds.
List of contents
Prologue.- Homo Sapiens-The Emotional Animal.- Concepts and Approaches.- Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes: Disciplinary Debates and an Interdisciplinary Outlook.- On the Origin and Evolution of Affective Capacities in Lower Vertebrates.- Emotions: The Shared Heritage of Animals and Humans.- Neurobiological Basis of Emotions.- Milestones and Mechanisms of Emotional Development.- Gravestones for Butterflies: Social Feeling Rules and Individual Experiences of Loss.- Emotion by Design: Self-Management of Feelings as a Cultural Program.- Emotion, Embodiment, and Agency: The Place of a Social Emotions Perspective in the Cross-Disciplinary Understanding of Emotional Processes.- On the Nature of Artificial Feelings.- Empirical Studies-Shame and Pride: Prototypical Emotions Between Biology and Culture.- "Honor and Dishonor": Connotations of a Socio-symbolic Category in Cross-Cultural Perspective.- "Honor and Dishonor" and the Quest for Emotional Equivalents.- End of Honor? Emotion, Gender, and Social Change in an Indonesian Society.- "Beggars" and "Kings": Emotional Regulation of Shame Among Street Youths in a Javanese City in Indonesia.- The Search for Style and the Urge for Fame: Emotion Regulation and Hip-Hop Culture.- Shame and Pride: Invisible Emotions in Classroom Research.- Anger, Shame, and Justice: Regulative and Evaluative Function of Emotions in the Ancient and Modern Worlds.
About the author
Birgitt Röttger-Rössler, Studium der Ethnologie, Anthropologie, Romanistik sowie Malaiologie und Volkskunde an den Universitäten Göttingen, Zürich, Köln und Bonn. 1988 Promotion, Habilitation 2001 an der sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen, wo sie Ethnologie lehrt. Derzeit Wissenschaftliche Leiterin (gemeinsam mit Hans Markowitsch) der Forschungsgruppe Emotionen als bio-kulturelle Prozesse am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld.
Summary
Emotions have emerged as a topic of interest across the disciplines, yet studies and findings on emotions tend to fall into two camps: body versus brain, nature versus nurture. Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes offers a unique collaboration across the biological/social divide—from psychology and neuroscience to cultural anthropology and sociology—as 15 noted researchers develop a common language, theoretical basis, and methodology for examining this most sociocognitive aspect of our lives. Starting with our evolutionary past and continuing into our modern world of social classes and norms, these multidisciplinary perspectives reveal the complex interplay of biological, social, cultural, and personal factors at work in emotions, with particular emphasis on the nuances involved in pride and shame.
A sampling of the topics: (1) The roles of the brain in emotional processing. (2) Emotional development milestones in childhood. (3) Social feeling rules and the experience of loss. (4) Emotions as commodities? The management of feelings and the self-help industry. (5) Honor and dishonor: societal and gender manifestations of pride and shame. (6) Emotion regulation and youth culture. (7) Pride and shame in the classroom.
A volume of such wide and integrative scope as Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes should attract a large cohort of readers on both sides of the debate, among them emotion researchers, social and developmental psychologists, sociologists, social anthropologists, and others who analyze the links between humans that on the one hand differentiate us as individuals but on the other hand tie us to our socio-cultural worlds.
