Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes

In this book, fifteen researchers from multidisciplinary perspectives develop a common language, theoretical basis, and methodology for examining the complex interplay of biological, social, cultural and personal factors in our emotions.

A key text for academics and researchers in a huge variety of disciplines, this book gathers the wisdom of researchers from many of them. Neurobiologists, philosophers, sociologists, developmental, physiological and social psychologists as well as social anthropologists are all represented in this wide-ranging volume, working together to establish an integrative model of emotion research. In the last two decades, interest in the emotions has increased significantly in various disciplines such as psychology, neurobiology, social anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and linguistics. Although the individual disciplines are studying overlapping issues in relation to emotions, the scientific approaches to these issues have often remained unrelated. This gap is especially obvious between the sciences and the humanities, where cooperative approaches hardly exist. All branches concerned realize that this missing interdisciplinary cooperation is a shortcoming and are thus demanding that the interaction between the disciplines should increase. And here is one text at least that goes a long way to solving the impasse.

Tackles the topic from a true interdisciplinary approach innovative and theoretical approaches that make these interactions accessible to analysis Uniquely integrated chapters due to authors' interchange of ideas before final versions

Auteur

PD Dr. phil. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. She studied social and physical anthropology as well as Malay languages and literatures at the Universities of Goettingen, Zurich, Cologne and Bonn. Her main research focuses on the cultural patterning of emotions as well as on gender relations, life history and autobiographical narrating; Indonesian and Malay literatures. She has accomplished several research projects concerning these topics and has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia, mainly in Sulawesi and Sumatra.

Hans Joachim Markowitsch is Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Bielefeld. He studied psychology and biology at the University of Konstanz, had professorships for biopsychology and physiological psychology at the Universities of Konstanz, Bochum, and Bielefeld and was offered chairs of psychology and neuroscience at Australian and Canadian Universities. His research centers on the neural and psychic bases of memory disorders, consciousness, emotion, and free will. He is author, co-author or editor of more than a dozen books and has written more than 450 scientific articles and book chapters

Contenu
Prologue.- Homo SapiensThe 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 StudiesShame 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.