How do Balinese manage to present to the world the clear, bright face, the grace and poise, that they regard as crucial to self-respect and social esteem? How c

Offers a theory that explains the impact of emotions on historical change.

The history of emotions is one of the fastest growing fields in current historical debate, and this is the first book-length introduction to the field, synthesi

Resonance gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork résumés in anthropology: Unni Wi

This is a study of love, specifically of men’s and women’s emotional roles vis-à-vis one another in Northeast Brazil; of how people form conjugal relationshi