Feeling modern: The history of emotions in urban South Asia
<p>The foundation of history's recent ‘emotional turn’ is that <em>emotions matter</em> in shaping individual and social motivations. Their importance is not just instrumental: against the explanatory grain of much scholarship since the nineteenth century, the history of emoti...
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| description | <p>The foundation of history's recent ‘emotional turn’ is that <em>emotions matter</em> in shaping individual and social motivations. Their importance is not just instrumental: against the explanatory grain of much scholarship since the nineteenth century, the history of emotions recognises that humans are not purely rational “economic subjects in trousers and skirts”— or, as it may be, <em>dhoti</em>s and <em>sari</em>s.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:542fea00-eced-410f-b19f-f7eb8a2e767a2022-03-26T16:36:10ZFeeling modern: The history of emotions in urban South AsiaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:542fea00-eced-410f-b19f-f7eb8a2e767aEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordCambridge University Press2017Chatterjee, EKrishnan, SRobb, M<p>The foundation of history's recent ‘emotional turn’ is that <em>emotions matter</em> in shaping individual and social motivations. Their importance is not just instrumental: against the explanatory grain of much scholarship since the nineteenth century, the history of emotions recognises that humans are not purely rational “economic subjects in trousers and skirts”— or, as it may be, <em>dhoti</em>s and <em>sari</em>s.</p> |
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| title | Feeling modern: The history of emotions in urban South Asia |
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