Books by Andrew (Brunel University) Beatty

Emotional Worlds is the first anthropological work in a generation to reconsider the nature of emotion, a preoccupation of our age. Adopting a narrative approach, it explores cultural worlds from the intimate perspective of the emotional life, showing how emotions tell a story, shaping lives, transforming situations and colouring experience.

This gripping narrative is about a radically different world and the search for a common humanity that underlies cultural difference. Interweaving fieldwork with the drama of life in a tribal society in extremis, this book is essential reading for students of anthropology and the general reader alike.