| CODE | ANT2053 | ||||||
| TITLE | Emotions, Culture and Society | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Anthropological Sciences | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed to provide students with insights into various aspects of the study of emotions across culture and history. The unit will be composed of two dimensions. It will explore the critique of anthropology and the social sciences more generally from scholars of emotion and the debates they have given rise to. Secondly the unit will focus on select emotions and adopt a cross cultural and historical perspective. The unit will address several crucial questions through these case studies: Are emotions universal? What is the role of emotions in different social structures? What is the relationship between emotions and structures of personhood? These emotions will include: • Guilt and shame. • Romantic love. • Grief • Anger • Disgust • ‘Moral sentiments’ The students will be encouraged to develop their own research in relation to one of the emotions discussed in class. Study-unit Aims This unit will aim to: • Offer students an insight into the social and cultural dimensions to emotions. • Enable students to examine the role that emotions play in the phenomenology of the subject. • Provide students with a historical understanding of emotions. • Provide students with an understanding of the critique of anthropology and sociology from scholars of emotions. • Alert students to current and classical theoretical perspectives and debates in the sociology and anthropology of emotions. • Provide students with an in depth understanding of a select number of emotions in more than psychological or biological terms. • Provide students with an understanding of the interplay between emotions and social difference and power relations. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Offer students an insight into the social and cultural dimensions to emotions. • Enable students to examine the role that emotions play in the phenomenology of the subject. • Provide students with a historical understanding of emotions. • Provide students with an understanding of the critique of anthropology and sociology from scholars of emotions. • Alert students to current and classical theoretical perspectives and debates in the sociology and anthropology of emotions. • Provide students with an in depth understanding of a select number of emotions in more than psychological or biological terms. • Provide students with an understanding of the interplay between emotions and social difference and power relations. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Read critically and selectively and make sense of a range of case studies in relation to classical and contemporary theory • Navigate with confidence online journal databases. • Write an essay with a clear structure that makes use of theoretical knowledge. • Develop the ability to plan and develop a research assignment and a collaborative research agenda. • Be able to develop the capacity to work in a team through their presentations in the unit. All of these skills are transferable and will prove invaluable to students in other subjects as well in any future careers they undertake. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings While most of this material is not available in the library students will be provided with a reader composed of a selection of articles from the following. • Harre, Rom (Ed) (1986) The Social Construction of Emotions. Oxford:Blackwell. [Not in library] • Ryang, S. (2006) Love in Modern Japan. Oxford: Routledge. • De Munck, V. C. (1996). "Love and marriage in Sri Lankan Muslim community: toward a re-evaluation of Dravidian marriage practices." American Ethnologist 23(4): 698-716. • Abu-Lughod, L. (1990). Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry. Language and the Politics of Emotion. Abu-Lughod, L. & Lutz, C. A. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. • Ahearn, L. (2001) Invitations to love: literacy, love letters, and social change in Nepal. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. • Constable, N. (2003). Romance on a Global Stage. Berkeley, University of California Press. • Hart, K.L. (2007) “Love by arrangement: the ambiguity of ‘spousal choice’ in a Turkish village.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13(2): 345-363. • Jankowiak, W. (1995). Introduction. Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience? New York, Columbia University Press. • Kim, Y.-S. (1976). "A View of Love in Ancient Korean Fiction." Asian Culture Quarterly 4(3): 9-19. • Lipset, D. (2004) “Modernity without romance?” American Ethnologist. 31(2): 205-224. • Uberoi, P. (2001) A Suitable Romance? Trajectories of Courtship in Indian Popular Fiction. In Images of the ‘Modern Woman’ in Asia. Munshi S. Surrey, Curzon. • Benedict, R. (1954) The Chrysanthemum and the sword. New York: Tuttle. [In library]. • Jankowiak, W. (2006) “Gender, Power and the Denial of Intimacy in Chinese Studies and Beyond.” Reviews in Anthropology. 35: 305-323. • Lutz, C. and Abu-Lughod L. (Eds) (1990) Language and the Politics of Emotion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [In Library] • Lutz, C. and White GM (1986) “The Anthropology of Emotions” Annual Review of Anthropology 15: 405-436. • Lutz, C. A. (1988) Unnatural Emotions. Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and their Challenge to Western Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Not in Library] • Hochschild, A. R. (2003) The Managed Heart: Commercialisation of Human Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press. [In library] • Elias, N. (1991) On Human Beings and their Emotions: A Process-Sociological Essay. In The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory, FEATHERSTONE, M., HEPWORTH, M. & TURNER, B. S. (Eds.) London: Sage. • Leavitt, John (1996) Meaning and Feeling in the Anthropology of the Emotions American Ethnologist 23(3): 514-539 • Harding, J. & Pribam, E. D. (2002) The power of feeling. Locating emotions in culture. European Journal of Cultural Studies. 5: 407-426. • Williams, S. J. (2001) Emotion and Social Theory: Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir)Rational. London: Sage Publications. • Shott, S. (1979) Emotion and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis. American Journal of Sociology. 84: 1317-1334. • Schieffelin, E. L. (1983) Anger and Shame in the Tropical Forest: On Affect as a Cultural System in Papua New Guinea. Ethos. 11: 181-191. • Laird, J. D. (1996) Emotional Self-control and Self-perception: Feelings are the Solution not the Problem. In The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions, Ed. R. Harre and W. G. Parrott. London: Sage: 285-301. • Solomon, R. C. (1997) Getting Angry: The Jamesian Theory of Emotion in Anthropology. In Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self, and Emotion, Ed. R. A. Shweder and R. A. LeVine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 238-254. [Not in Library] • Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist. (1980) Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [Not in library] • Rosaldo, Michelle Z. (1984) “Toward an anthropology of self and feeling.” In Culture Theory: essays on mind, self, and emotion. R. A. Shweder and R. A. LeVine, editors. Pp. 137-157. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. • Rosaldo, Michelle Z. (1980) Knowledge and Passion: Illingot Notions of Self and social Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • Rosaldo, R. (2004) "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage". In. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Philippe I. Bourgois, (Eds) Violence in war and peace. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. • Rosaldo, R. (1993) Culture and Truth • Burkitt, I. (1997) Social Relationships and Emotions. Sociology 31(1): 37-55. • Duncombe, J. & Marsden, D. (1998) 'Stepford Wives'and 'hollow men'? Doing emotion work, doing gender and 'authenticity' in intimate heterosexual relationships. In Emotions in Social Life. Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues, BENDELOW, G. & WILLIAMS, S. J. (Eds.) London: Routledge. • Hollan, D. (1992) Emotion Work and the Value of Emotional Equanimity among the Toraja. Ethnology. 31: 45-75. • Gaffin, D. (1995) The Production of Emotion and Social Control: Taunting, Anger, and the Rukka in the Faroe Islands. Ethos. 23: 149-172. • Goffman, Erving (1956) Embarrassment and Social Organization The American Journal of Sociology 62(3): 264-271. • Robarchek, C. A. (1979) Conflict, Emotion, and Abreaction: Resolution of Conflict among the Semai Senoi. Ethos. 7: 104-123. • Seidler, V. J. (1998) Masculinity, violence and emotional life. In Emotions in Social Life. Critical themes and Contemporary Issues, BENDELOW, G. & WILLIAMS, S. J. (Eds.) London: Routledge. • Duncombe, J. and D. Marsden (1993) Love and Intimacy: The Gender Division of Emotion and 'Emotion Work' A Neglected Aspect of Heterosexual Relationships. Sociology 27(2): 221-241. • Ibarra, M. (2002) Emotional proleterians in a global economy: Mexican immigrant women and elder care work. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural systems and world Economic Development. 25: 483-510. • Wolkomir, M. (2001) Emotion work, commitment, and the Authentication of the Self. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 30(3): 305-334. • Marks, Joel & Ames, roger T. (Eds.) (1995) Emotions in Asian Thought. SUNY: Albany. [Not in Library] • Johnson, David E. & Michaelson Scott (2008) Anthropology’s Wake: Attending ot the End of Culture. Fordham University Press: New York. [Not in Library]. |
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| LECTURER/S | Jean-Paul Baldacchino |
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