Anthropology of Emotions (Reading List)

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1985. “Honor and the Sentiments of Loss in a Bedouin Society.” American Ethnologist 12:245-261.

Ahmed, Sara. 2004. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. London: Routledge.

Athanasiou, Athena, Hantzaroula, Pothiti and Yannakopoulos, Kostas. 2008. “Towards a New Epistemology: The ‘Affective Turn’.” Historein 8:5-16

Berlant, Lauren. 2004. “Critical Inquiry, Affirmative Culture.” Critical Inquiry 30:445-451.

Brennan, Teresa. 2004. The Transmission of Affect. Cornell University Press.

Clough, Patricia T. 2007. The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Duke University Press.

Clough, Patricia T. 2009. “The New Empiricism: Affect and Sociological Method.” European Journal of Social Theory 12:43-61.

Csordas, Thomas J. 1993. “Somatic Modes of Attention.” Cultural Anthropology 8:135-156.

Eagleton, Terry. 1988. “The Ideology of the Aesthetic.” Poetics Today 9:327-338.

Gorton, Kristyn. 2007. “Theorizing emotion and affect: Feminist engagements.” Feminist Theory 8:333-348.

Grosz, Elizabeth. 1994. Volatile bodies: toward a corporeal feminism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Grosz, Elizabeth. 2001. Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Grosz, Elizabeth. 2011. “Matter, Life, and other variations.” Philosophy Today 55:17-27.

Hemmings, Clare. 2005. “Invoking Affect: Cultural theory and the ontological turn.” Cultural Studies 19:548-567.

Leys, Ruth. 2010. “How Did Fear Become a Scientific Object and What Kind of Object Is It?” Representations 110:66-104.

Leys, Ruth. 2011. “The Turn to Affect: A Critique.” Critical Inquiry 37:434-472.

Leys, Ruth and Goldman, Marlene. 2010. “Navigating the Genealogies of Trauma, Guilt, and Affect: An Interview with Ruth Leys.” University of Toronto Quarterly 79:656-679.

Lutz, Catherine and White, Geoffrey M. 1986. “The Anthropology of Emotions.” Annual Review of Anthropology 15:405-436.

Massumi, Brian. 1995. “The Autonomy of Affect.” Cultural Critique 31:83-109.

Massumi, Brian. 2005. “Fear (The Spectrum Said).” positions 13:31-48.

Navaro-Yashin, Yael. 2009. “Affective spaces, melancholic objects: ruination and the production of anthropological knowledge.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15:1-18.

Ngai, Sianne. 2007. Ugly Feelings. Harvard University Press.

Papoulias, Constantina and Callard, Felicity. 2010. “Biology’s Gift: Interrogating the Turn to Affect.” Body & Society 16:29-56.

Redman, Peter. 2009. “Affect revisited: Transference-countertransference and the unconscious dimensions of affective, felt and emotional experience.” Subjectivity 26:51-68.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy and Lock, Margaret M. 1987. “The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1:6-41.

Sedgwick, Eve K. 2003. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Duke University Press.

Sedgwick, Eve K. and Frank, Adam. 1995. “Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins.” Critical Inquiry 21:496-522.

Slaby, Jan and Stephan, Achim. 2008. “Affective intentionality and self-consciousness.” Consciousness and Cognition 17:506-513.

Stewart, Kathleen. 2007. Ordinary Affects. Duke University Press.

Terada, Rei. 2003. Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject”. Harvard University Press.

Thien, Deborah. 2005. “After or beyond feeling? A consideration of affect and emotion in geography.” Area 37:450-456.

Williams, Caroline. 2010. “Affective processes without a subject: Rethinking the relation between subjectivity and affect with Spinoza.” Subjectivity 3:245-262.