Description:
- A new perspective on how emotions can be theorized and used to understand the mobility of humans, objects and images
- Examines how migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in translational contexts
- Draws on diverse, ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies to explore the relationship between migration, material culture and emotions
Brief description:
Maruska Svasek is Professor of Anthropology in the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast. Her main research interests are emotional dynamics, migration and art and artefacts. Recent publications include Human Mobility and Emotions: Ethnographies of Movement (ed., 2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007) Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (2006).
Review Quotes:
"The editor has assembled a welcoming rage of case studies that go beyond the European locale to include Africa, North America, Asia and the Caribbean. The book spans an unexpected scope of fine-grained ethnographies that put the diasporic, social and emotional agency of material culture at the centre of analysis." - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale