Affect

Bibliographic Data

ID22367663
AuthorsAndrea De Antoni (0000-0002-6480-0790), Andrea Antoni (0000-0003-3062-4773, Ritsumeikan University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages1-8
Publication date2019-12-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2437
OpenAlexW4239528650
ISBN9781118924396
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

A notion originally developed in social and cultural theory rather than in anthropology, affect has recently started being taken into consideration by various disciplines, as part of the broader project of investigating the entanglements involving the social, the biological, the material, and the cultural. Generally speaking, affect theory points at bodily capacities to affect and to be affected. According to Massumi, such capacities are conceived as originally prepersonal “intensities,” which are strongly linked with perception and movement, and which become socialized and eventually embedded into the realm of the sociocultural. Affects differ from emotions, seen as “captures” of affect within sociocultural structures of meaning, which cannot give a complete account of the experienced affects. This strong dichotomy between affect and discourse has been criticized as problematic. In order to respond to such criticisms, recent research has proposed ideas of “affective practices” or broader “skills of feeling with the world,” as novel ways to approach fieldwork and to ground theory in empirical data

Aesthetics · Affect theory · Epistemology · Feeling · Perception · Realm · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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