meaning and feeling in the anthropology of emotions

摘要: Emotion terms are used in everyday discourse to indicate experiences that involve both meaning and feeling, mind body. Most attempts theorize emotions, however, tend reduce them one side or the other of these dichotomies; anthropology is divided between views emotions as primarily biological sociocultural nature. In this article I consider approaches propose three ways around meaning/feeling dichotomy: through a rereading intellectual past modern West; analytic methods seek reconstruct affective resonances; realization feeling-tones, well meanings, conveyed writing reading ethnography. draw on comparative material from Central Himalayan region Kumaon northern India. [emotion, meaning, anthropological theory, South Asia, Himalaya]