The cultural content of emotion
Subtitle: folk psychology in West Sumatra
By: Karl G. Heider
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780230115248
Subjects: Ethnopsychology; Social life and customs; Cognition and culture; Minangkabau (Indonesian people); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General; Communication and culture; Emotions and cognition; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "Describing the second stage of Karl G. Heider's exploration of emotion as understood by the Minangkabau - a matrilineal, Moslem society of West Sumatra, Indonesia - this book uses semi-structured interviews with focus groups and individuals to allow emotions to lead us into the broader realm of Minangkabau folk psychology. Minangkabau have long been considered the intellectuals of Indonesia, and not surprisingly turn out to be deeply concerned with intelligences, with controlling one's own emotions, and with discerning the emotions of others. This fascinating work solidifies the situation of emotions at the center of investigation as a powerful ethnographic strategy"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Minangkabau Folk Psychology * Minangkabau Emotion Theory * Minangkabau Emotion Clusters * Conclusions.