Landscapes of Emotion
Mapping Three Cultures of Emotion in Indonesia

This book studies the cultural constructions of emotions, examining how different cultures shape ideas.

Karl G. Heider (Author)

9780521401517, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 August 1991

352 pages
23.7 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.64 kg

"...introduces a new method for studying vocabulary stuctures in the realm of emotions,,," Cliff Goddard, Semiotica

In this book, Karl G. Heider studies the cultural constructions of emotions, examining how different cultures shape ideas and talk about emotion. The main subjects of the study are the Minangkabau, a matrilineal Muslim culture of three million people in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Comparative data come from the Central Javanese, also of Indonesia and reference is made to studies of American emotions. The Minangkabau have two different 'cultures of emotion', used depending on whether they are speaking their own regional language or the national language. And the Central Javanese have yet another culture of emotion when they are speaking the 'same' national language. Landscapes of Emotion will appeal to a range of readers in anthropology, psychology, sociology and Asian studies who want to understand how different cultures shape emotion.

Acknowledgments
Part I. Theory, Method and Results: 1. Theoretical introduction
2. Mapping the realm of emotion
3. Membership in the realm of emotion: prototypicality
4. Emotion scenarios: antecedents and outcomes
5. Comparisons between languages
6. The composite maps of emotion terms, cluster by cluster
7. Conclusions
Part II. A Cluster-By-Cluster Analysis of the Composite Maps of Emotion Terms: The 44 clusters
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]