Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35295-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 621 g

Reihe: Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia

In Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan, nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the pre-modern period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks’ writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology.
Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schuler, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Conventions
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Historicizing Asian Community-based Emotion Practices
Barbara Schuler

India
1 A House for the Nation to Remember: A Correspondence of Emotions between Jawaharlal Nehru and G. D. Birla, 1948
Padma D. Maitland
2 Food and Emotion: Can Emotions be Worked On and Altered in Material Ways?—A Short Research Note on South India
Barbara Schuler
3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments: An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)
Irina Glushkova
4 Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia
Kiyokazu Okita
5 Loving Siva’s Linga: The Changing Emotional Valences of a Beloved Image in the Tamil-Speaking Saiva Tradition
Anne E. Monius
6 Contested Emotionality, Religious Icons in Ancient India
Gérard Colas
7 Giving Gifts in Pre-Modern India: The Motivation of the Donors
Katrin Einicke

China
8 Seeing Suchness: Emotional and Material Means of Perceiving Reality in Chinese Buddhist Divination Rituals
Beverley McGuire

Japan
9 When Sad is Good: Affect among Friends in and out of Japanese Picturebooks
Heather Blair

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Schuler, Dr. phil., Universität Hamburg, is a researcher in Indian Studies. She has published monographs, editions, translations, and articles on India, including “The Dynamics of Emotions in the Ritual of a Hot Goddess” in Nidan 24 (2012): 16–40.