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The cultural construction of emotion in rural Chinese social life
Ethos • 16 (2) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 181-208
By: Potter, Sulamith Heins.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Chinese emotions, specifically their meaning in social settings. The main argument regards Chinese emotional life as disassociated from social life. Public expressions of anger, sadness, or even joy lack social importance. Rather they are considered idiosyncratic "outbursts" that for the most part can be ignored. The discussion draws on closer examination of emotions as expressed in various familial, marital, and political settings and finds that close social relationships are affirmed through acts of work rather than expressions of love and emotion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Mutual aid
- Basis of marriage
- Family relationships
- Ethnopsychology
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sulamith Heins Potter
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-208)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 730643517
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs