Introduction: The cultural study of mood and meaning / Helena Wulff
Exploring emotions
Emotion, thought, and estrangement : emotion as a cultural category / Catherine A. Lutz
Emotion talk across cultures / Paul Heelas
Emotion, feelings and hedonics in the human brain / Morten L. Kringelbach
Emotion (or life, the universe, everything) / Kay Milton
Can happiness be taught? / Martin E. P. Seligman
Exploring the managed heart / Arlie Russell Hochschild
Catholics, Protestants, and office workers from the town : the experience and negotiation of fear in Northern Ireland / Karen D. Lysaght
Emotions in academia / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren
The cartesian divide of the nation-state : emotion and bureaucratic logic / Don Handelman
Love and hate
Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry / Lila Abu-Lughod
Perilous passions : romantic love and love magic in Russia / Galina Lindquist
Knowledge and the practice of love and hate among the enxet of Paraguay / Stephen W. Kidd
Relations with the imagined child : the emotionality of becoming an adoptive parent in Norway / Signe Howell
Anger, shame and grief
Getting angry : the Jamesian theory of emotion in anthropology / Robert C. Solomon
The shame of headhunters and the autonomy of self / Michelle Z. Rosaldo
Grief and a headhunter's rage : on the cultural force of emotions / Renato Rosaldo
Moving corpses : emotions and subject-object ambiguity / Maruka Svaek
Desire and expectations
Cool play : emotionality in dance as a resource in Senegalese urban women's associations / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
The performance hypothesis : practicing emotion in protected frames / William O. Beeman
The emotional life of gay men : observations from New York / Moshe Shokeid
From rational calculation to sensual experience : the marketing of emotions in advertising / Timothy D. Malefyt
Emotional baggage : the meaning/feeling debate amongst tourists / Jonathan Skinner
The emotional self and identity
Person, time, and conduct in Bali / Clifford Geertz
Emotions and the self : a theory of personhood and political order among Pintupi Aborigines / Fred R. Myers
Rachel's emotional life : movement and identity / Nigel Rapport.
The emotions : a cultural reader. ISBN 9781845203689. Published by Berg in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.