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Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan
Series: - Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia, Volume: 6
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Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan, nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the pre-modern period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks’ writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology.
Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler.
Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler.
Barbara Schuler, Dr. phil., Universität Hamburg, is a researcher in Indian Studies. She has published monographs, editions, translations, and articles on India, including “The Dynamics of Emotions in the Ritual of a Hot Goddess” in
Nidan 24 (2012): 16–40.
Contents
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Historicizing Asian Community-based Emotion Practices
Barbara Schuler
1 A House for the Nation to Remember: A Correspondence of Emotions between Jawaharlal Nehru and G. D. Birla, 1948
Padma D. Maitland
2 Food and Emotion: Can Emotions be Worked On and Altered in Material Ways?—A Short Research Note on South India
Barbara Schuler
3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments: An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)
Irina Glushkova
4 Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia
Kiyokazu Okita
5 Loving Śiva’s Liṅga: The Changing Emotional Valences of a Beloved Image in the Tamil-Speaking Śaiva Tradition
Anne E. Monius
6 Contested Emotionality, Religious Icons in Ancient India
Gérard Colas
7 Giving Gifts in Pre-Modern India: The Motivation of the Donors
Katrin Einicke
8 Seeing Suchness: Emotional and Material Means of Perceiving Reality in Chinese Buddhist Divination Rituals
Beverley McGuire
9 When Sad is Good: Affect among Friends in and out of Japanese Picturebooks
Heather Blair
Index
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Historicizing Asian Community-based Emotion Practices
Barbara Schuler
India
1 A House for the Nation to Remember: A Correspondence of Emotions between Jawaharlal Nehru and G. D. Birla, 1948
Padma D. Maitland
2 Food and Emotion: Can Emotions be Worked On and Altered in Material Ways?—A Short Research Note on South India
Barbara Schuler
3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments: An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)
Irina Glushkova
4 Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia
Kiyokazu Okita
5 Loving Śiva’s Liṅga: The Changing Emotional Valences of a Beloved Image in the Tamil-Speaking Śaiva Tradition
Anne E. Monius
6 Contested Emotionality, Religious Icons in Ancient India
Gérard Colas
7 Giving Gifts in Pre-Modern India: The Motivation of the Donors
Katrin Einicke
China
8 Seeing Suchness: Emotional and Material Means of Perceiving Reality in Chinese Buddhist Divination Rituals
Beverley McGuire
Japan
9 When Sad is Good: Affect among Friends in and out of Japanese Picturebooks
Heather Blair
Index
Those interested in the history of emotions and community-based emotion practices, including understandings of emotionally coded objects, and anyone interested in pre-modern and modern Asia, religion, or anthropology more generally.