Showing posts with label emotions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotions. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Han 한

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I have often been fascinated by non western emotional states and how they can shine a light onto how humanity relates to its emotions. I thi...
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Sunday, 26 June 2011

a longer history of emotions?

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Sorry about the advert at the beginning, but this National Geographic video struck me as interesting. Is it showing one of our closely relat...
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Monday, 21 February 2011

the anatomy of melancholy

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A sign of our modern era? A story (admittedly a few months old) on the BBC website about the way we relate to depression. In times gone pas...
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Friday, 25 June 2010

infanticide

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A curious tale from the BBC . Archaeological remains in England show a mass grave of around 97 new-born infants from a Roman building, belie...
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Sunday, 13 June 2010

Emotional Freedom

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Ok so I'm only doing this about 2 months later than intended. Sigh... It is not enough for historians of emotion to merely document the ...
Thursday, 10 June 2010

A question for historians of emotion

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A hypothetical one - the reality would of course be impossible. Imagine in the future, historians come to look back upon our world. If they ...
Wednesday, 2 June 2010

sniffing the tobacco swahili style

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An expression of affection that astonishes this Scottish mind. However, I make no moral judgement, because I don't think it's approp...
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Monday, 10 May 2010

A day of hatred

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Sadly I'll be out of the country but this looks fascinating and I'm a big fan of Joanna Bourke's work... Histories of Hatred A L...
Thursday, 11 March 2010

The direction of emotions in history

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One of the biggest questions in the study of the history of emotions is in what direction are our emotions heading? Is there a grand narrati...
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Wednesday, 3 February 2010

different emotions

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From wikipedia , some of these may be familiar, others not so... Abhiman is an Indian term best described as a feeling of prideful loving a...
Friday, 8 January 2010

Toilet training?

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Few emotions are more powerful or more visceral than disgust. And yet few other reactions show much the emotions can vary and as such can be...
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Thursday, 7 January 2010

Tudor emotions

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Today I received an email from a man called Brad Irish, a student of English doing a doctoral dissertation on emotions in the Tudor court. H...
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Sunday, 27 December 2009

a feeling for the future...?

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A thought has been buzzing around my head for the last few days, as I lay fat on the sofa full of Christmas fowl. Every so often the issue o...
Friday, 11 December 2009

How cooking made us feel

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The history of emotions is ultimately a journey onto the ocean of inquiry that asks, 'what makes us human?' Therefore, despite the o...
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Monday, 16 November 2009

Primal Fear?

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear." H.P. Lovecraft When one tries to look back far into the past at our pre-l...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Towards a new history of Western emotions

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A quick flyer for an interesting evening which I am deeply hoping to get to, work permitting. PUBLIC LECTURE AND WINE RECEPTION. 5 October 2...
Sunday, 27 September 2009

a kiss and a cuddle...

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I came across this , by George Weber, recently about the Andamanese in the 1850's. They are a tribal society in the south eastern Indian...
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Friday, 4 September 2009

Emotional event

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Something I received from Dr Thomas Dixon from Queen Mary University, London. It looks pretty interesting... Would that I had a day off to g...
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Monday, 31 August 2009

to live in fear

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What was it like in those early houses, those first settlements when man gave up the nomadic life and staked his future on agriculture? Was ...
Tuesday, 18 August 2009

facing up to emotion

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Some interesting news on the BBC at the end of last week, which i think lends credence towards theories of emotions being rooted in culture ...