Encounters with Emotions

Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity

Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen, Margrit Pernau (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-077-6 (ISBN)

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Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other’s emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.

Benno Gammerl is DAAD lecturer in queer history at Goldsmiths, University of London and Adjunct Researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. His publications include Subjects, Citizens and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867–1918 (2018).

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Encountering Feelings—Feeling Encounters

 Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen and Margrit Pernau

Chapter 1. Missionaries: False Reverence, Irreverence and the Rethinking of Christian Mission in China and India 

Stephen Cummins and Joel Lee

Chapter 2. Travellers: Transformative Journeys and Emotional Contacts

 Edgar Cabanas, Razak Khan and Jani Marjanen

Chapter 3. Anthropologists: Feelings in the Field 

Pascal Eitler and Joseph Ben Prestel

Chapter 4. Entrepreneurs: Encountering Trust in Business Relations 

Agnes Arndt

Chapter 5. Diplomats: Kneeling and the Protocol of Humiliation 

Ute Frevert

Chapter 6. Occupiers and Civilians: Facing the Enemy 

Philipp Nielsen

Chapter 7. Prisoners: Experiencing the Criminal Other 

Pavel Vasilyev and Gian Marco Vidor

Chapter 8. ‘Monsters’: Emotional Incoherence and Familial Murder

 Daphne Rozenblatt

Chapter 9. Performers: From ‘Courtesans’ to Kathakali King Lear 

Kedar A. Kulkarni

Chapter 10. Lovers and Friends: Encounters of Hearts and Bodies

 Margrit Pernau

Conclusion: After Encounters with Feelings: Outcomes and Further Issues

 Benno Gammerl

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Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2025
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83695-077-2 / 1836950772
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-077-6 / 9781836950776
Zustand	Neuware