UID:
almahu_9949385918502882
Format:
1 online resource (411 pages)
ISBN:
9781000751314
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1000751317
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9780367220952
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0367220954
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9781000751406
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1000751406
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9781000751499
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100075149X
Content:
This book describes a ubiquitous and potent emotion that has only rarely and recently been studied in any systematic manner. The words that come closest to denoting it in English are being moved or touched, having a heart-warming feeling, feeling nostalgic, feeling patriotic, or pride in family or team. In religious contexts when the emotion is intense, it may be labeled ecstasy, mystical rapture, burning in the bosom, or being touched by the Spirit. All of these are instances of what scientists now call kama muta' (Sanskrit, moved by love'). Alan Page Fiske shows that what evokes this emotion is the sudden creation, intensification, renewal, repair, or recall of a communal sharing relationship - when love ignites, or people feel newly connected. He explains the social, psychological, cultural, and likely evolutionary processes involved - and how they interlock. Kama muta is described as it manifests in diverse settings at many points in history across scores of cultures, in everyday experiences as well as the peak moments of life. The chapters illuminate the occurrence of kama muta in a range of contexts, including religion, oratory, literature, sport, social media, and nature. The book will be of interest to students and scholars from a number of disciplines who are interested in emotion or social relationships. Supplementary notes can be found online at: www.routledge.com/9780367220945
Note:
Online notes
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The emotion; Typographic note; Preface: Ways to read this book: My aims and your uses for it; Acknowledgments; Part I The feeling; Chapter 1 Cuteness and cosmos; Moving experiences with adult animals; Humankind, nature, and the cosmos: Feeling one with the wild; Peak experiences; Online notes; Notes; Chapter 2 The signs and sensations; Love is a warm feeling in the heart; Online notes; Notes; Chapter 3 Universal narrative prototypes of reunion, culturally adapted to evoke kama muta; Recognizing Odysseus; Online Notes; Notes
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Part II The basic theory and everyday experiencesChapter 4 Homo movens: What evokes kama muta experiences, and what motives emerge?; Equivalence among bodies makes persons socially equivalent: Consubstantial assimilation; Kama muta's psychosocial and adaptive functions; The cultural constitution of an evolved psychological adaptation; What kama muta is; Negative affect leading up to, accompanying, or following kama muta; Online notes; Notes; Chapter 5 Compassion, heroism, and victory; Cry dates; Charity volunteers, caretakers, and therapists; Addiction recovery groups and support groups
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ForgivenessSports and war; Weeping winners and their weeping fans; Online notes; Notes; Chapter 6 Strategic evocation of kama muta; Oratory; The Moving China Award; Moving merchandise; Online notes; Notes; Part III Getting deeper into it; A pivotal idea: Kama muta is a long-run cause of the cultural practices that evoke it; Chapter 7 How not to reify words; The lexical fallacy: Using vernacular words as psychological constructs; Methodological challenges; Online notes; Notes; Chapter 8 The arts of kama muta; Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tortilla Flat
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The melodrama of superheroes and fighting machinesReading poetry; "Guaranteed to make you cry:" Sharing glurge on the Internet; Emotibytes: Off-the-shelf emotions-on-demand; Touching painting and sculpture; Moving dancers, actors, and other artists; Online notes; Notes; Chapter 9 Disasters, memorials, and mementos; Monuments and memorial sites; Objects of affection; Online notes; Notes; Chapter 10 The kama muta experience is generated by a culturally tuned psychological mechanism, the psype
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The psychological mechanism for kama muta is a function mapping communal sharing intensifications onto motivationsThe kama muta psype is a natural kind, culturally informed by precedents, prototypes, precepts, and other preos; Narrower constructs: Bits of kama muta; Social emotions are immediate proxies for the long-term benefits of social relationships; Drivers: Institutions, practices, narratives, roles, art, and artifacts whose function is to evoke the psype; Doing, feeling, and performing; Online Notes; Notes; Part IV Religion; Chapter 11 Mystical religious experiences; Knowing
Additional Edition:
Print version: Fiske, Alan Page. Kama Muta : Discovering the Connecting Emotion. Milton : Routledge, ©2019 ISBN 9780367220938
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780367220952.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367220952
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