Antropología «compleja» de las emociones humanas

Abstract

It has become fashionable to talk and write about the human emotions. We do think that it is time we social (and other) scientists pay more attention to the emotionality of (wo)men. Our approach is an interdisciplinary one, since we believe it is the best way to deal with the complexity of this phenomena. We will concentrate on four major aspects of it: the universality of emotions, the discussion on the relationships between emotion and cognition, the social effects of emotions and the emotional effects of the social, and, at last, the embodied nature of emotion. Ours is an open-ended «story», and we hope to contribute to the discussion and encourage further explorations on such a fascinating topic.