Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts

In everyday life, emotions like rage, anger or frustration are not, generally, condoned. Indeed, a good part of the work of enculturation is devoted to managing social conduct so as to avoid or suppress emotions considered negative or unproductive. In the ethnographic literature, scrutiny of these kinds of emotional states and their expression is rare, not least because they reside somewhere between the individual and his or her cultural surrounds and are hard to pinpoint. The authors of the present issue - Rage, Anger and other Don'ts: Cultural Expression and Suppression of the Undesirable and Unbearable in Everyday Life - invite readers to explore practices and discourses within which these kinds of emotions or, more prominently, their disciplining can be grasped ethnologically. Alongside four scholarly articles, four essays encircle the theme in a more literary vein, albeit grounded in careful observation and recollection. The introduction and two final comments seek to frame topics ranging from road rage and the controlling of prisoners' anger to a menopausal kitchen outburst, and to point the way toward further possible research in this largely unexplored realm of culturally shaped practice.


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BUTTERFLY FROM BERLIN’S ASHES

Hubertus Büschel

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 112-115

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CULTURAL EXPRESSION AND SUPPRESSION OF THE UNDESIRABLE AND UNBEARABLE IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Regina F. Bendix

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 5-16

CROSSROADS OF ANGER

Dan Podjed and Saša Babič

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 17-33

THE TOPOGRAPHIES OF AFFECT

Grete Swensen

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 34-49

A STORY TO TRANSFER TRAUMA

Sam Senji (Pseudonym)

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 55-57

HALF-CUP RAGE

Kimberly J. Lau

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 58-61

EMOTIONAL ECOLOGIES AND MUSICAL FIRST AID AT THE EDGE OF REASON

Birgit Abels

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 62-69

HATE AS A POLITICAL OUTCAST

Birgitte Schepelern Johansen

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 70-85

#MUSLIMRAGE

Alexandra Schwell

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 86-104

RAGE

Glenn Bowman

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 105-111

FROM THE SURGEON’S PRACTICE

Rudolf Flückiger

2015-06-30 Volume 45 • Issue 2 • 2015 • 2015 - Special Issue: Rage, Anger and other Don'ts • 54

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