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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495967303321

Titolo

Divine passions : the social construction of emotion in India / / edited by Owen M. Lynch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1990]

ISBN

0-585-13108-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 312 pages)

Disciplina

152.4

Soggetti

Emotions

Love - Religious aspects - Hinduism

Ethnology - India

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Ethnic & Race Studies

Conference papers and proceedings.

Electronic books.

India Social life and customs Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Papers presented at a conference held 12/1-14/85 at the University of Houston.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The social construction of emotion in India / Owen M. Lynch -- The ideology of love in a Tamil family / Margaret Trawick -- "To be a burden on others" : dependency anxiety among the elderly in India / Sylvia Vatuk -- The Mastrām : emotion and person among Mathura's Chaubes / Owen M. Lynch -- Untouchable Chuhras through their humor : "equalizing" marital kin through teasing, pretence, and farce / Pauline Kolenda -- Krishna's consuming passions : food as metaphor and metonym for emotion at Mount Govardhan / Paul M. Toomey -- In Nanda Baba's house : the devotional experience in Pushti Marg temples / Peter Bennett -- Refining the body : transformative emotion in ritual dance / Frédérique Apffel Marglin -- On the moral sensitivities of Sikhs in North America / Verne A. Dusenbery.

Hare Krishna, Radhe Shyam : the cross-cultural dynamics of mystical



emotions in Brindaban / Charles R. Brooks.