The Cultural Context of Emotion: Folk Psychology in West Sumatra

by Karl G. Heider

Book Overview

Based on the author's second stage of research on emotions of the matrilineal Moslem Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia, this book is a continuation of Heider's groundbreaking 1991 book, Landscapes of Emotion . This work demonstrates how situating emotion at the center of an investigation is a powerful ethnographic tool.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230115241
• ISBN13: 9780230115248
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.3"