The emotions: a cultural reader

Introduction: The cultural study of mood and meaning / Helena Wulff

Exploring emotions

Emotion, thought, and estrangement : emotion as a cultural category / Catherine A. Lutz

Emotion talk across cultures / Paul Heelas

Emotion, feelings and hedonics in the human brain / Morten L. Kringelbach

Emotion (or life, the universe, everything) / Kay Milton

Can happiness be taught? / Martin E.P. Seligman

Exploring the managed heart / Arlie Russell Hochschild

Catholics, Protestants and office workers from the town : the experience and negotiation of fear in Northern Ireland / Karen D. Lysaght

Emotions in academia / Billy Ehn, Orvar Löfgren

The cartesian divide of the nation-state : emotion and bureaucratic logic / Don Handelman

Love and hate

Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry / Lila Abu-Lughod

Perilous passions : romantic love and love magic in Russia / Galina Lindquist

Knowledge and the practice of love and hate among the Enxet of Paraguay / Stephen W. Kidd

Relations with the imagined child : the emotionality of becoming an adoptive parent in Norway / Signe Howell

Anger, shame and grief

Getting angry : the Jamesian theory of emotion in anthropology / Robert C. Solomon

The shame of headhunters and the autonomy of self / Michelle Z. Rosaldo

Grief and a headhunter's rage : on the cultural force of emotions / Renato Rosaldo

Moving corpses : emotions and subject-object ambiguity / Maruška Svašek

Desire and expectations

'Cool play' : emotionality in dance as a resource in Senegalese urban women's associations / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach

The performance hypothesis : practicing emotion in protected frames / William O. Beeman

The emotional life of gay men : observations from New York / Moshe Shokeid

From rational calculation to sensual experience : the marketing of emotions in advertising / Timothy D. Malefyt

Emotional baggage : the meaning/feeling debate amongst tourists / Jonathan Skinner

The emotional self and identity

Person, time, and conduct in Bali / Clifford Geertz

Emotions and the self : a theory of personhood and political order among Pintupi Aborigines / Fred R. Myers

Rachel's emotional life : movement and identity / Nigel Rapport

Afterword / Robert A. LeVine.