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Andrew Beatty teaches anthropology at Brunel University. He has carried out five years' fieldwork in Indonesia and is the author of four other books, including After the Ancestors: An Anthropologist's Story (Cambridge, 2015).
'Andrew Beatty has produced a subtle, literate and humane account of how emotions are expressed, narrated and construed in very different societies. The study of emotions in context, set in narrative frameworks, demands a very special ethnographic engagement and empathy, but as Beatty argues, 'the field reveals what the lab and the library cannot'. Presenting ethnographic case studies, some based on his own extensive fieldwork in Indonesia, drawing on wide reading in anthropology and psychology, Beatty's moving, insightful book transcends disciplinary boundaries.' Adam Kuper, Boston University 'Andrew Beatty has produced a subtle, literate and humane account of how emotions are expressed, narrated and construed in very different societies. The study of emotions in context, set in narrative frameworks, demands a very special ethnographic engagement and empathy, but as Beatty argues, 'the field reveals what the lab and the library cannot'. Presenting ethnographic case studies, some based on his own extensive fieldwork in Indonesia, drawing on wide reading in anthropology and psychology, Beatty's moving, insightful book transcends disciplinary boundaries.' Adam Kuper, Boston University
