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The Contradictory Emotions of Gendered Labor

A Case Study of Daughters’ Caregiving in Rural Guangdong

Xiang Zou

how they respond to care in the act, shedding light on the distinction between emotion and action and the important role that subjective formulation of value, affect, and attitude plays in conceptualizing care. 1 This article defines care as affect

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Ordinary Violence, Emotion, Information, and Anxiety

Some Themes in Recent Work on Colonial Violence

William Palmer

early colonial America have also appeared. Two of these studies make use of the work of William Reddy on the importance of emotions. Reddy has argued that “emotional control is the real site of the exercise of power.” In every culture, feelings emerge

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Emotions and Authority in Religious Organisations

The Case of a New Prayer Group in Contemporary Transcarpathia

Agnieszka Halemba

This article reflects on the place of emotionally arousing ex- periences within religious organisations. Using data obtained through participant observation and interviews, it outlines a research approach for investigations of the interrelationships between particular features of religious practices. Those features have been pointed out in many previous anthropo- logical and sociological works, but few works attempted to analyse connections and interdependencies between con- crete features of religious traditions. The present article takes inspiration from contemporary 'modes of religiosity' theory to explore further the relationships between highly emotion- ally arousing religious experiences and centralised religious authority. Going beyond Whitehouse's theory, it is argued that centralised religious organisations can influence the so- cial features of a religious movement through management of emotionality in ritual practice.

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Color and Artefact Emotion in Alternative Cinema: A Comparative Analysis of Gabbeh, Mirch Masala, and Meenaxi: A Tale of 3 Cities

Lalita Pandit Hogan

This article discusses filmic emotion by focusing on how the dominant color (blue in Gabbeh and Meenaxi; red in Mirch Masala) is used to elicit emotion. Through alienation effect, the viewer is distanced from the aims and goals of characters, and is less likely to experience the sorts of emotions that result from identification. The first two films use multiple frames of narration leading to character(s) in the outer frame becoming like spectators, invested in, for instance, fortune of others emotions that are central to the enjoyment of movies. In Mirch Masala, narration focuses on class struggle; there is minimal engagement with characters' individual aims, goals, and desires. While the red film foregrounds social anger, the blue films foreground consciousness. The three films together ask questions about what makes war and what makes peace, and how human action and human consciousness, represented through colors, figures in all this.

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Constructing Film Emotions

The Theory of Constructed Emotion as a Biocultural Framework for Cognitive Film Theory

Timothy Justus

How artworks can both express and evoke emotion has long been of central concern to philosophers of art, music, and literature ( Robinson 2005 ) and to experimental psychologists of the arts ( Winner 2019 ). At least since the 1990s, cognitive

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X International Siberian Studies Conference, Saint Petersburg, 24–26 October 2016

Valeria V. Vasilyeva

Professor Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov who gave an extensive introduction to the anthropology of emotions. He analyzed his field data from the north of Krasnoiarskii krai from the perspective of affective turn, and argued that observation of affect may serve as

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Naturalized Aesthetics and Emotion Theory

Rainer Reisenzein

illustrates the proposed brand of naturalized aesthetics in a series of case studies that focus on the role of emotions. With these investigations, he continues a trend within film studies that he has himself helped to develop ( Smith 1995 ) and that

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How Many Emotions Does Film Studies Need?

A Phenomenological Proposal

Julian Hanich

We don't discriminate carefully enough, you know, between things that seem alike but are different. You should always do that. —Richard Ford, Canada It was a success story. Since the 1990s emotion research has been not only “one of

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States of Feeling

Public Servants’ Affective and Emotional Entanglements in the Making of the State

Sophie Andreetta, Luisa Enria, Pauline Jarroux, and Susanne Verheul

to understand the “magic of the state”’ (2015: 10). Our ambition is to build on this work through an explicit focus on bureaucracies and the work of state agents to show what a more sustained attention to affects and emotions from within can bring to

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A State of Relief

Feelings, Affect and Emotions in Instantiating the Malawi State in Disaster Relief

Tanja D. Hendriks

conceptualisations of the state as a ‘relational setting’ ( Thelen et al. 2014 ), I seek to show in this article how a focus on affect, feelings and emotions is more fruitful when trying to understand everyday practices of ‘street-level’ bureaucrats ( Lipsky 1980