Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes

Introduction.- Homo Sapiens-The Emotional Animal.- Part I: Concepts and Approaches. Emotions as Bio-Cultural Processes: Disciplinary Debates and an Interdisciplinary Outlook.- On the Origin and Evolution of Affective Capacities in Lower Vertebrates.- Emotions: The shared Heritage of Animals and Humans.- Neurobiological Basis of Emotions.- Milestones and Mechanisms of Emotional Development.- Gravestones for Butterflies: Social Feeling Rules and Individual Experiences of Loss.- Emotion by Design: The Self-Management of Feelings as a Cultural Program.- Emotion, Embodiment, and Agency: The Place of a Social Emotions Perspective in Cross-Disciplinary Understandings of Emotional Processes.- On the Nature of Artificial Feelings.- Part II: Empirical Studies: Shame and Pride-Prototypical Emotions Between Biology and Culture. 'Honour and Dishonour': Connotations of a Socio-Symbolic Category in Cross-Cultural Perspective.- 'Honour and Dishonour' and the Quest for Emotional Equivalents.- 'The End of Honour': Emotion, Gender, and Social Change in an Indonesian City.- 'Beggars' and 'Kings': The Emotional Regulation of Shame Among Street Youths in a Javanese city in Indonesia.- The Search for Style and the Urge for Fame: Emotion Regulation and Hip-Hop Culture.- Shame and Pride: The Invisible Emotions in Classroom Research.- Anger, Shame, and Justice: The Regulative and the Evaluative Function of Emotions in the Ancient and Modern World.