Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan

This unique volume offers case-based studies on changes in Asian community or group-based emotion practices, including understandings of emotionally coded objects, thereby adding greater geographical scope and new voices from unexplored (sub)cultures to the field of the history of emotion. Contents Preface List of Figures and Tables Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction Historicizing Asian Community-Based Emotion Practices Barbara Schuler 1 The Cultural Dimension 1.1 Emotional Cultures 2 Doing Emotion 3 Emotions and Their Material Practice 3.1 Awareness of Change 3.2 Examples of Historicized Community-Based Practices of Emotion in South and East Asia: Shifts and Changes, Innovations and Continuity 3.2.1 Examples of Innovation and Change of Emotional Practice Due to a Charismatic Personality: By Whom, When, Where, What, and How? 3.2.2 Examples of Change of Emotional Practice Due to Needs, Ideologies, and Predilections 3.2.3 Examples of Change of Emotional Practice Due to Competition among Groups and Imitating Prestigious Groups to Seek Advantage 3.2.4 Examples of Change in Emotional Practice Due to New Political Facts and Social Expectations 3.2.5 Examples of Change in Emotional Practice Due to Personal Experience and New Registers of Knowledge 3.2.6 Examples of Continuity of Emotional Practice 4 About the Chapters 5 Concluding Remarks India Chapter 1 A House for the Nation to Remember: A Correspondence of Emotions between Jawaharlal Nehru and G. D. Birla, 1948 Padma D. Maitland 1 Introduction 2 Birla Bhavan 3 The Letters 4 Other Homes and Other Memories Chapter 2 Food and Emotion: Can Emotions Be Worked On and Altered in Material Ways?—A Short Research Note on South India* Barbara Schuler 1 Introduction 2 The Emotions of Food 3 Dieties Are What They Eat 4 Training the Palate: Social, Emotional, and Religious Capital 5 Training the Emotions in Material Ways 6 Varying Techniques of Training the Emotions 7 Conclusion Chapter 3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments: An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)* Irina Glushkova 1 Yearning and Bliss as Explained by Tukaram of the 17th Century 2 Hurt Sentiments as Expressed by the Varkaris of the 21st Century Chapter 4 Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia* Kiyokazu Okita 1 Introduction 2 Siṅgabhūpāla II 3 Rūpa Gosvāmī 4 Siṅgabhūpāla and Rūpa on Rāga 4.1 The Saffron Type of Rāga 4.2 The Indigo Type of Rāga 4.3 The Madder Type of Rāga 5 Conclusion Chapter 5 Loving Śiva’s Liṅga: The Changing Emotional Valences of a Beloved Image in the Tamil-Speaking Śaiva Tradition Anne E. Monius 1 Introduction 2 The Liṅga and Emotion in the Tēvāram 3 The Liṅga and Emotion in Post-Tēvāram Poetry 4 The Liṅga and Emotion in the Meykaṇṭa Cāttiraṅkaḷ 5 Conclusion Chapter 6 Contested Emotionality, Religious Icons in Ancient India Gérard Colas 1 Introduction 2 Icon and the Notion of God 3 Vedic Iconophonia 4 Icons as Empty Objects: Enduring Scepticism in Vedic Ritual Exegesis and Grammarian Circles 5 Ambiguity in belles-lettres and Arthaśāstra 6 Reluctance and Acceptance in Buddhism: From Relics to Icons 7 Emotion and Icon Worship 8 Becoming Icon 9 External Spaces 10 Icon as Juridical Person 11 Self-Manifested Icon 12 Installation 13 Icon-Makers and Priests, Cooperation and Competition 14 Priestly Conceptions 15 Iconophilia Versus Iconophobia: 14th–15th Century, a Key-Period? 16 Christian Missionaries and Icons 17 Conclusion Chapter 7 Giving Gifts in Pre-Modern India: The Motivation of the Donors Katrin Einicke 1 The Concept of Giving Gifts According to the Sources 2 Gifts Versus Donations: A Question of Objects and Modes of Usage 3 Giver/Donor Versus Recipient/Donee 4 The Intention of People to Give Gifts 4.1 No Explicit Expectation of a Specific Response 4.2 Spiritual Reward and Good Rebirth or Final Release 4.3 Non-Material Reward in This World 4.4 More “Mundane Gain” 5 The Motivation of People to Make Endowments/Donations 5.1 The Wording of the Dedication Phrase 5.2 Determining Factors 5.3 Verses Encouraging People to Donate and Discouraging Them to Confiscate the Gift 5.4 Passages Mentioning the Circumstances of the Dedication 5.5 The Value of Royal Donations in Political and Administrative Affairs 6 Conclusion China Chapter 8 Seeing Suchness: Emotional and Material Means of Perceiving Reality in Chinese Buddhist Divination Rituals Beverley McGuire 1 Text 2 Rituals of the Divination Sutra: Instilling Faith through Fear 3 Rituals of the Divination Sutra: Incense and Presence 4 Rituals of the Divination Sutra: Seeing Suchness 5 Profound Meaning of the Divination Sutra: Sincerity and Suchness 6 Commentary on the Divination Sutra: Perfuming Thoughts and Rejoicing with Others 7 Conclusion Japan Chapter 9 When Sad is Good: Affect among Friends in and out of Japanese Picturebooks Heather Blair 1 Introduction 2 Feeling with Picturebooks 3 Lonely and Sad 4 Even Demons Get the Blues: Satisfying Sadness 5 Conclusion Index In Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan, nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the pre-modern period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks'writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology.Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler. In 'Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan', nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the medieval period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks' writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology