Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions

• 1. Introduction: developing a biocultural approach to the emotions Alexander Laban Hinton; Part I. Local Biology: 2. Emotions Carol M. Worthman; 3. Toward an understanding of the universality of second order emotions Daniel M. T. Fassler; 4. Steps to an evolutionary ecology of mind James Chisholm; Part II. Embodiment: 5. Music hath charms … fragments toward constructionist biocultural theory Iain D. Edgewater; 6. Emotion and embodiment Margot L. Lyon; Part III. Biocultural Synergy: 7. Affecting experience: toward a biocultural model of human emotions Keith McNeal; 8. Making symbols meaningful: a role of human emotions Este Armstrong; 9. Brain and emotion relations in culturally diverse populations Lee Blonder; Part. IV. Systems Theory: 10. Outline of a bioculturally-based 'processual' approach to the emotions Alexander Laban Hinton; 11. Emotion: a biogenetic structural approach Charles Laughlin and Jason Throop.

"This volume is a rich source of concepts for empirical workers struggling with the complexity of emotion and the integration of biology and culture." Current Anthropology