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The Archaeology of Emotion and Affect

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ID2295347
AuthorsSarah Tarlow (0009-0008-5468-9137, University of Leicester, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume41
Issue1
Pages169-185
Publication date2012-10-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145944
OpenAlexW2116909189
LanguageEN
Citations received107
References cited94

The literature on the archaeology of emotion and affect is mostly quite recent and is not extensive. This review considers the main lines of approach taken so far and explores how different understandings of what constitutes an emotion underlie the work of archaeologists in this area. A distinction is made between past emotion as a subject of study and examination of the emotional subjectivity of the archaeologist as a method. The potential contribution of archaeology to emotion studies in the future includes bringing a sense of contextual historicity to the discussion and developing our knowledge of how material things and places are involved in shaping and expressing emotion. Inspired by some historians of emotion, a focus on shared emotional meanings, values, and codes seems a more productive direction than the exploration of idiosyncratic personal emotional experience

Aesthetics · Affect · Affect (linguistics · Affective science · Art · Cognitive psychology · Emotion work · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Historicity (philosophy · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Communication · Computer Science · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · History of Emotions Research · Philosophy · Psychology

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