Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific,Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each others emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.

Philipp Nielsen is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Sarah Lawrence College and Associate Researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. His publications includeBetween Heimat and Hatred: Jews and the Right in Germany, 18711935 (forthcoming 2019) andArchitecture, Democracy and Emotions: The Politics of Feeling since 1945 with Till Großmann (2018).

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Encountering FeelingsFeeling Encounters
Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen and Margrit Pernau

Chapter 1. Missionaries: False Reverence, Irreverence and the Rethinking of Christian Mission in China and India
Stephen Cummins and Joel Lee

Chapter 2. Travellers: Transformative Journeys and Emotional Contacts
Edgar Cabanas, Razak Khan and Jani Marjanen

Chapter 3. Anthropologists: Feelings in the Field
Pascal Eitler and Joseph Ben Prestel

Chapter 4. Entrepreneurs: Encountering Trust in Business Relations
Agnes Arndt

Chapter 5. Diplomats: Kneeling and the Protocol of Humiliation
Ute Frevert

Chapter 6. Occupiers and Civilians: Facing the Enemy
Philipp Nielsen

Chapter 7. Prisoners: Experiencing the Criminal Other
Pavel Vasilyev and Gian Marco Vidor

Chapter 8. Monsters: Emotional Incoherence and Familial Murder
Daphne Rozenblatt

Chapter 9. Performers: From Courtesans toKathakali King Lear
Kedar A. Kulkarni

Chapter 10. Lovers and Friends: Encounters of Hearts and Bodies
Margrit Pernau

Conclusion: After Encounters with Feelings: Outcomes and Further Issues
Benno Gammerl

Index