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Feeling Modern: The History of Emotions in Urban South Asia

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: The foundation of history's recent ‘emotional turn’ is thatemotions matterin shaping individual and social motivations. Their importance is not just instrumental: against the explanatory grain of much scholarship since the nineteenth century, the history of emotions recognises that humans are not purely rational “economic subjects in trousers and skirts”— or, as it may be,dhotis andsaris.

Source: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

DOI: 10.1017/s1356186317000451

Authors: ELIZABETH CHATTERJEE, SNEHA KRISHNAN, MEGAN EATON ROBB

Institutions: University of Oxford, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania

Language: English

Topic: History of Emotions Research

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: University of Oxford

OpenAlex ID: W2755923976