Landscapes of Emotion - Mapping Three Cultures of Emotion in Indonesia (Hardcover, New)

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 Moslem 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. Cognitive maps of the emotion terms in each of the languages show lexical proximity of terms, clusters of terms, and relations between the clusters. Conclusions can be drawn about lexical density, about code-switching, and about the use of a national language by peoples with very different first languages.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
Release date:	August 1991
First published:	1991
Authors:	Karl G. Heider
Dimensions:	237 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-40151-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
LSN:	0-521-40151-8
Barcode:	9780521401517

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