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A History of Emotions: July 2011
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Wednesday, 6 July 2011. It is sometimes described as both unique to and an essential component of Koreans' emotional lives. A Korean colleague put it quite simply:. Han = a collective sense of bonding based on suffering and hardship. The bonding aspect here is important as it binds a people together, in a non-market based sense of identit...
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A History of Emotions: May 2010
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Monday, 10 May 2010. A day of hatred. Sadly I'll be out of the country but this looks fascinating and I'm a big fan of Joanna Bourke's work. A London Consortium Public Event. Sunday, 16 May 201011:30-18:00. The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. What are the historical records of hatred? Space is limited and ...
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A History of Emotions: the anatomy of melancholy
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Monday, 21 February 2011. The anatomy of melancholy. A sign of our modern era? A story (admittedly a few months old) on the BBC website. Is this condition not one of the great common themes of both joyce's ulysses and the original odyssey? Posted by scot in exile. 1 March 2011 at 05:22. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I started this b...
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A History of Emotions: infanticide
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Friday, 25 June 2010. A curious tale from the BBC. Archaeological remains in England show a mass grave of around 97 new-born infants from a Roman building, believed to be a brothel. To modern ears a heartbreaking tale is heard, where lacking contraception Roman prostitutes practised infanticide on a widespread scale. 6 January 2011 at 23:...
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A History of Emotions: September 2010
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Friday, 17 September 2010. The anatomy of melancholy. The anatomy of melancholy. Why do we love a certain kind of sadness so much that we crave it so in our music, in our books, in so much of our society? This is something that we westerners are not alone in. This reminds me of those examples of love and other emotions that we ourselves u...
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A History of Emotions: Emotional Freedom
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Sunday, 13 June 2010. Ok so I'm only doing this about 2 months later than intended. Sigh. One of those questions which occupies historians is which societies have given us the most emotional freedom? And is that emotional freedom inherently a good thing? Prof Reddy suggested that perhaps the best way of judging that is by considering whic...
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A History of Emotions: A question for historians of emotion
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Thursday, 10 June 2010. A question for historians of emotion. A hypothetical one - the reality would of course be impossible. How else without texts might they view those modern day temples? Might they play old movies and discover our narratives obsessing over sex, violence and revenge? Who from the other disciplines would they speak to?
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A History of Emotions: Han 한
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Wednesday, 6 July 2011. It is sometimes described as both unique to and an essential component of Koreans' emotional lives. A Korean colleague put it quite simply:. Han = a collective sense of bonding based on suffering and hardship. The bonding aspect here is important as it binds a people together, in a non-market based sense of identit...
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A History of Emotions: The anatomy of melancholy
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Friday, 17 September 2010. The anatomy of melancholy. The anatomy of melancholy. Why do we love a certain kind of sadness so much that we crave it so in our music, in our books, in so much of our society? This is something that we westerners are not alone in. This reminds me of those examples of love and other emotions that we ourselves u...
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A History of Emotions: a longer history of emotions?
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A History of Emotions. An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in. Sunday, 26 June 2011. A longer history of emotions? Sorry about the advert at the beginning, but this National Geographic video struck me as interesting. Is it showing one of our closely related relatives engaged in a sophisticated emotional response? What can we infer from it, if the chimpanzees are truly grieving? Posted by scot in exile.
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