The Cultural Context of Emotion: Folk Psychology in West Sumatra

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.

Author: K. Heider
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/13/2011
Pages: 249
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230115248

About the Author
KARL G. HEIDER is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, USA.