Language and the politics of emotion / edited by Catherine A. Lutz, Lila Abu-Lughod.

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Contributors: Lutz, Catherine, Abu-Lughod, Lila
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, [1990]
Series:Studies in emotion and social interaction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: emotion, discourse, and the politics of everyday life / Lila Abu-Lughod and Catherine A. Lutz
  • Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry / Lila Abu-Lughod
  • Moral discourse and the rhetoric of emotions / Geoffrey M. White
  • Engendered emotion: gender, power, and the rhetoric of emotional control in American discourse / Catherine A. Lutz
  • Topographies of the self: praise and emotion in Hindu India / Arjun Appadurai
  • Shared and solitary sentiments: the discourse of friendship, play, and anger in Bhatgaon / Donald Brenneis
  • Registering affect: heteroglossia in the liguistic expression of emotion / Judith T. Irvine
  • Language in the discourse of the emotions / Daniel V. Rosenberg
  • Untouchability and the fear of death in a Tamil song / Margaret Trawick.