I. Courtly love and chivalry
 

Bloch, R. Howard, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), chapters 4, 6, 7

Joan Kelly Gadol, “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” in Becoming visible : women in European history / edited by Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, Susan Stuard.

For background on chivalric warfare and tournaments: Duby, Georges,The Legend of Bouvines : War, Religion, and Culture in the Middle Ages, translated by Catherine Tihanyi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).

[Possible questions: What are the origins of courtly love?How did chivalry work in practice on actual battle fields? Was courtly love a sign of women’s power or of women’s weakness within the social order?]

II. Sentimentalism

Maza, Sarah, Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (Berkeley, Calif., 1993), chapters 1, 5, 6.

Maza, Sarah, "Luxury, Morality, and Social Change:  Why There Was No Middle-Class Consciousness in Prerevolutionary France," Journal of Modern History 69(1997):199-229

Langford, Paul, A Polite and Commercial People: England, 1727-83 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), chapters 3, 10.

Darnton, Robert, “Readers Respond to Rousseau: The Fabrication of Romantic Sensitivity,” in idem, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York: Basic Books, 1984), pp. 215-256.

[Possible questions: How many people actually felt feelings of the kind described in Pamela?What was the relation between sentimentalism and social change and politics in the eighteenth century?]

III. Islam:

Abu-Lughod, Lila, "Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry," in Lutz, Catherine A., and Lila Abu-Lughod, eds., Language and the politics of emotion (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1990), 24-45.

Smadar Lavie, The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)

Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio, and Byron Good, “Ritual, the State, and the Transformation of Emotional Discourse in Iranian Society,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 12 (1988), No. 1, 43-63.

Grima, Benedicte, The Performance of Emotion among Paxtun Women (Austin, Texas, 1992), pp. 1-105.

[Possible questions: Why is grief an important emotion in Islamic communities?How do emotions and gender issues correlate in patriarchal social orders?]

IV. Bali

Wikan, Unni, Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), chapters 1, 2, 3, 6

Geertz, Clifford, “Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali,” in The Interpretation of Culture (New York: Basic Books, 1973)

[Possible questions:Did anthropologists, prior to Wikan, miss something important about Balinese emotions?Do Balinese really change their feelings or simply cover them up?]

V. India:

Appadurai, Arjun, “Topographies of the Self: Praise and Emotion in Hindu India,” in Lutz, Catherine A., and Lila Abu-Lughod, eds., Language and the Politics of Emotion (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la maison des sciences de l’homme, 1990), 92-112.

Brenneis, Donald, “Dramatic Gestures: The Fiji Indian Pancayat As Therapeutic Event,” in Disentangling: Conflict Discourse in Pacific Societies, edited by Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and Geoffrey M. White (Stanford, Calif., 1990), 214-238.

Cohn, Bernard H., “The Pasts of an Indian Village,” in An Anthropologist Among the Historians And Other Essays (Oxford University Press: 1987), 88-99

[Possible questions: What are the political implications of rasa?How do its uses vary from one location to another?Can ideas of emotion influence styles of conflict resolution?]

VI. Japan:

Benedict, Ruth, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (New York: Signet, [1946] 1967), Chapters 1, 2, 10, 11, 12.

Kumagai, Hisa A. , “A Dissection of Intimacy: A Study of ‘Bipolar Posturing’ inJapanese Social Interaction, Amaeru and Amayakasu, Indulgence and Deference,”Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 5(1981):249-72.

Pelzel, J., “Japanese Personality and Culture,” Culture, Medicine andPsychiatry 1(1977):299-315.

[Possible questions: Is Takeo Doi’s depiction of Japanese psychology too abstract or too general?What are the historical origins of amae?Can Doi’s theory offer a better understanding of Japanese participation in World War II than the classic account of Ruth Benedict?]

Comparative topics:

VII. Is love universal?

Shaver, Phillip R., Hillary J. Morgan, and Shelley Wu, “Is Love a ‘Basic’ Emotion?” Personal Relationships 3(1996):81-96.

Shaver, Phillip R., Waller, Niels G., “The Importance of Nongenetic Influences on romantic Love Styles: A Twin-Family Study,” Psychological Science 5 (1994):268-274.

Kumagai, Hisa A., “A Dissection of Intimacy: A Study of ‘Bipolar Posturing’ inJapanese Social Interaction, Amaeru and Amayakasu, Indulgence and Deference,”Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 5(1981):249-72.

Bloch, R. Howard, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), chapters 4, 6, 7.

[Possible questions: Do other languages always contain equivalent words for what English-speakers call “love”?How similar do two conceptions of “love” have to be before we consider that the “same” emotion is being felt in both cultures?]

VIII. Cross-cultural perspectives on grief

Feld, Steven, “Wept Thoughts: The Voicing of Kaluli Memories,” in South Pacific Oral Traditions, edited by Ruth Finnegan and Margaret Orbell (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 85-108.

Urban, G., “Ritual Wailing in Amerindian Brazil,” American Anthropologist 90 (1988):385-400.

Grima, Benedicte, The Performance of Emotion among Paxtun Women (Austin, Texas, 1992), pp. 1-105.

[Possible questions: Do expressions of grief always take the same, or very similar, forms?What social purposes can expressions of grief fulfill?]
 

IX. The Debate Over Civility

Greenblatt, Stephen, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), esp. chapters 1 and 4

Martin, John, "Inventing Sincerity, Refashioning Prudence: The Discovery of the Individual in Renaissance Europe," American Historical Review 102 (1997):1309-1342—Already

Shankman, Paul, "The History of Samoan Sexual Conduct and the Mead-Freeman Controversy," American Anthropologist 98(1996):555-567 [Reviews two books: Margaret Mead,