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Attempting to connect the academic discussion around the anthropology and philosophy of the emotions to real-life, everyday experiences, this collection brings together concrete cases and situations arising from specific social and political contexts throughout the Americas. In particular, the authors explore how emotions are generated, constructed, discovered, manipulated, and experienced throughout the Americas by exploring undertheorized topics ranging from investigating the emotional lives of prisoners in Colombia and Brazil who have committed “crimes of passion,” to Colombian soldiers’ experiences of core “emotional events,” to the role of emotions in immigration policy in the United States, to how emotions affect educators’ abilities to teach certain material. Taken as a whole, this innovative, interdisciplinary, collection of original essays is not merely comparative, but rather seeks to bring voices and methodologies from North and South America into conversation to generate innovative analyses and ways to reflect about emotions in response to violence, state policies, and educational systems.

Ethnology. --- Emotions. --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Social sciences—Philosophy. --- Social Anthropology. --- Emotion. --- Latin American Culture. --- Social Philosophy. --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Emotions

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This book interrogates the nature and state of African American citizenship through the prism of Social Contract Theory. Challenging the United States’ commitment to African American citizenship, this book explores the idea of Social Nullification, the decision to reject, revoke and re-define the social contract with a state and society. Charles F. Peterson surveys the history of Social Contract Theory, examines Nullification as political and legal theory, argues public policy as a measure of the state’s commitment to the contractarian relationship and frames the writings and activism of Martin R. Delany, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the African American Reparations Movement as examples of Social Nullification and challenges to the terms of Black life in America. Charles F. Peterson is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA. Dr. Peterson writes on Africana political theory and aesthetics, and is a co-editor of Sons of Lovers: An Anthology of Poetry by Black Men (2000) and De-Colonizing the Academy (2003), and author of DuBois, Fanon and Cabral: The Margins of Anti-Colonial Leadership (2007). He lives in Oberlin, OH where he has served as a five-term City Councilperson.

Political science --- African Americans. --- Culture. --- Political science. --- Political Philosophy. --- African American Culture. --- Political Science. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Political philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects --- United States --- History

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Connecting multiple academic areas, this book addresses three aspects of the poetry of José Watanabe: 1) the construction of "Japaneseness" in the poetic works and public figure of the poet, 2) the skillful manipulation of literary devices characteristic of his poetry, 3) the unique sensibilities and moods of ephemerality and ineffableness prevalent in his poetic works. The trans/interdisciplinary nature of the book intends to promote a dialogue and exchange of ideas across academic fields neglected in most studies on the Peruvian poet. Written by researchers based in Japan, it offers a unique perspective of Japanese cultural phenomenon unavailable in previous studies. The goal of the book is to shed light on how Japan continues to be seen by the West through essentialist notions and stereotypical representations, as well as to highlight the fact that the literary quality of Watanabe's poetic artistry does not reside in it being "Japanese" and can be appreciated without resorting to essentialist categorizations based on positive Japanese stereotypes.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Migration. Refugees --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Linguistics --- Poetry --- History of civilization --- niet-westerse cultuur --- etnologie --- cultuur --- linguïstiek --- poëzie --- migratie (mensen) --- Asia --- Latin America --- Latin American Culture --- Asian Culture --- Diaspora --- Poetry and Poetics --- Literature, general --- Ethnology --- Emigration and immigration --- Watanabe, José --- Watanabe, José

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Following the 1960s, the decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. This book presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the intellectual landscape of the 1970s who share a commitment to what the book calls 'neo-idealism' as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.

Literature --- Neoliberalism in popular culture. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Popular culture --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Theory --- Nineteen seventies --- Libertarianism in literature. --- Social values. --- Self-consciousness (Awareness) --- Autonomy (Philosophy) --- History. --- Self-awareness --- Self-consciousness --- Consciousness --- Values --- 1970s --- 70s (Twentieth century decade) --- Seventies (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- cults in the seventies, libertarianism after the sixties, idealism in modern society, subjectivity in postmodern american culture.

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Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin to Robert Mueller, to establish an oblique history of the path from a world where not believing in truth was unthinkable to the present, where it is common to believe that objective truth is a remnant of a simpler, more naïve time. Examining detective stories both literary and popular including hard-boiled, postmodern, and twenty-first century novels, the book establishes that examining detective fiction allows for a unique view of this progression to post-truth since the detective’s ultimate job is to take the reader from doubt to belief. David Riddle Watson shows that objectivity is intersubjectivity, arguing that the belief in multiple worlds is ultimately what sustains the illusion of relativism.

Detective and mystery stories, American --- Truth in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric. --- Metaphysics. --- Mass media and crime. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Contemporary Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Rhetorics. --- Crime and the Media. --- American Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Crime and mass media --- Crime --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- Literature --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures. --- Style. --- America. --- Social aspects --- Rhetoric