Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Published on 1. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-1-83695-077-6 (ISBN)
Description
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other's emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.
Reviews / Votes
"...a well-balanced and thoughtful collection of essays. Being the terrain of an encounter between different disciplines and strands of research, it will prove to be an insightful read for historians of emotions as well as a valuable introduction to the field for a diverse range of students of the modern history of transcultural encounters." * Emotions: History, Culture, Society (EHCS)"The chapters in this well-balanced volume look at the encounters of cultures, groups and individuals from every angle. Encounters with Emotions is a remarkable contribution to our understanding of cultural diversity." * Oto Luthar, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
10 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-077-6 (9781836950776)
DOI
10.3167/9781789202236
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Benno Gammerl | Philipp Nielsen | Margrit Pernau
Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
E-Book
06/2019
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€33.99
Available for download
Benno Gammerl | Philipp Nielsen | Margrit Pernau
Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
E-Book
06/2019
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€24.49
Available for download
Persons
Benno Gammerl is DAAD lecturer in queer history at Goldsmiths, University of London and Adjunct Researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. His publications include Subjects, Citizens and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918 (2018).
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Encountering Feelings-Feeling Encounters
?Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen and Margrit Pernau
Chapter 1. Missionaries: False Reverence, Irreverence and the Rethinking of Christian Mission in China and India?
Stephen Cummins and Joel Lee
Chapter 2. Travellers: Transformative Journeys and Emotional Contacts
?Edgar Cabanas, Razak Khan and Jani Marjanen
Chapter 3. Anthropologists: Feelings in the Field?
Pascal Eitler and Joseph Ben Prestel
Chapter 4. Entrepreneurs: Encountering Trust in Business Relations?
Agnes Arndt
Chapter 5. Diplomats: Kneeling and the Protocol of Humiliation?
Ute Frevert
Chapter 6. Occupiers and Civilians: Facing the Enemy?
Philipp Nielsen
Chapter 7. Prisoners: Experiencing the Criminal Other?
Pavel Vasilyev and Gian Marco Vidor
Chapter 8. 'Monsters': Emotional Incoherence and Familial Murder
?Daphne Rozenblatt
Chapter 9. Performers: From 'Courtesans' to Kathakali King Lear?
Kedar A. Kulkarni
Chapter 10. Lovers and Friends: Encounters of Hearts and Bodies
?Margrit Pernau
Conclusion: After Encounters with Feelings: Outcomes and Further Issues
?Benno Gammerl
Index
Introduction: Encountering Feelings-Feeling Encounters
?Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen and Margrit Pernau
Chapter 1. Missionaries: False Reverence, Irreverence and the Rethinking of Christian Mission in China and India?
Stephen Cummins and Joel Lee
Chapter 2. Travellers: Transformative Journeys and Emotional Contacts
?Edgar Cabanas, Razak Khan and Jani Marjanen
Chapter 3. Anthropologists: Feelings in the Field?
Pascal Eitler and Joseph Ben Prestel
Chapter 4. Entrepreneurs: Encountering Trust in Business Relations?
Agnes Arndt
Chapter 5. Diplomats: Kneeling and the Protocol of Humiliation?
Ute Frevert
Chapter 6. Occupiers and Civilians: Facing the Enemy?
Philipp Nielsen
Chapter 7. Prisoners: Experiencing the Criminal Other?
Pavel Vasilyev and Gian Marco Vidor
Chapter 8. 'Monsters': Emotional Incoherence and Familial Murder
?Daphne Rozenblatt
Chapter 9. Performers: From 'Courtesans' to Kathakali King Lear?
Kedar A. Kulkarni
Chapter 10. Lovers and Friends: Encounters of Hearts and Bodies
?Margrit Pernau
Conclusion: After Encounters with Feelings: Outcomes and Further Issues
?Benno Gammerl
Index