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Divine passions : the social construction of emotion in India
- Title
- Divine passions : the social construction of emotion in India / edited by Owen M. Lynch.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1990]
- ©1990
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- Additional Authors
- Lynch, Owen M., 1931-2013.
- Description
- x, 312 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purdah's veils--these are familiar Western stereotypes of India. The essays in Divine Passions, however, paint other, more colorful and emotionally alive pictures of India: ecstatic religious devotees rolling in temple dust gray-haired elders worrying about neglect and mistreatment by family members priests pursuing a lusty, carefree ideal of the good life and jokers reviling one another with bawdy, sexual insults at marriages.
- Drawing on rich ethnographic data from emotion-charged scenarios, these essays question Western academic theories of emotion, particularly those that reduce emotions to physiological sensations or to an individual's private feelings. Presenting an alternative view of emotions as culturally constructed and morally evaluative concepts grounded in the bodily self, the contributors to Divine Passions help dispel some of the West's persistent misconceptions of Indian emotional experience. Moreover, the edition as a whole argues for a new and different understanding of India based on field research and an understanding of the devotional (bhakti) tradition.
- Subjects
- India
- Ethnology
- Congresses (form)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Inde > Moeurs et coutumes
- India > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Indien
- Love > Religious aspects > Hinduism > Congresses
- Emotions > Congresses
- Ethnology > India > Congresses
- Religieuze aspecten
- Sociale aspecten
- Moraal
- Emoties
- Kongress
- Gesellschaft
- Gefühl
- Manners and customs
- 73.85 cultural psychology
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Congresses (form)
- Note
- Papers presented at a conference held 12/1-14/85 at the University of Houston.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The social construction of emotion in India / Owen M. Lynch -- The ideology of love in a Tamil family / Margaret Trawick -- "To be a burden on others" : dependency anxiety among the elderly in India / Sylvia Vatuk -- The Mastrām : emotion and person among Mathura's Chaubes / Owen M. Lynch -- Untouchable Chuhras through their humor : "equalizing" marital kin through teasing, pretence, and farce / Pauline Kolenda -- Krishna's consuming passions : food as metaphor and metonym for emotion at Mount Govardhan / Paul M. Toomey -- In Nanda Baba's house : the devotional experience in Pushti Marg temples / Peter Bennett -- Refining the body : transformative emotion in ritual dance / Frédérique Apffel Marglin -- On the moral sensitivities of Sikhs in North America / Verne A. Dusenbery -- Hare Krishna, Radhe Shyam : the cross-cultural dynamics of mystical emotions in Brindaban / Charles R. Brooks.
- ISBN
- 0520066472
- 9780520066472
- 0520066427 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 89004975
- OCLC
- ocm19670367
- 19670367
- SCSB-1899422
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library