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RECOMMENDED BOOKS & ARTICLES
 

EMOTIONS

Alexander, Caroline. “Behind the Mask: Revealing the Trauma of War”. National Geographic, no date.

Altieri, Charles. The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.

The Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman. Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles of Psychological Balance and Compassion. New York: Holt, 2009.

Duffy, Maureen and Len Sperry. Mobbing: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Ekman, Paul. Moving Toward Global Compassion. Paul Ekman Group, 2014.

Heider, Karl G. Landscapes of Emotion: Mapping Three Cultures of Emotion in Indonesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Hodder, Ian, Ed. The Meaning of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Coming to our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness. New York: Hyperion, 2005.

Matsumoto, David, Paul Ekman, James Witte, Roy Pargas. “Survey 2005: In Your Face Results. “Angry, Angrier, Angriest: Can you Tell?”. National Geographic, 2005.

Mercier, Jacques. Art That Heals: The Image as Medicine in Ethiopia. Munich/New York: Prestal/Museum of African Art, 1997.

Morgan, David. The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Oglensky, Bonnie D. Ambivalence in Mentorship: An Exploration of Emotional Complexities. London: Routledge, 2018.

Plamper, Jan. The History of Emotions: An Introduction. Oxford, U. K.: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Pollock, Sheldon, Ed. A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Priyal, Katie Rose Guest. “Speaking up in Academe” Chronicle for Higher Education. 9 June 2015.

Stone, Andrea. “How Art Heals the Wounds of War” National Geographic, February 15, 2015.

Trepal-Wollenzier Med & Kelly L. Wester MA. “The Use of Masks in Counseling,” Journal of Clinical Activities, Assignments & Handouts in Psychotherapy Practice (2002), 2/2: 123-130.

Valk, Adrienne van der. “Under Attack: The Bullying of Teachers is Slowly Entering the National Spotlight. How will your School Respond?” Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (Summer 2015) 50/2-15.

Westhues, Kenneth. “Checklist of Mobbing Indicators” 2006.

Westhues, Kenneth, ed. Winning, Losing, Moving On: How Professionals Deal with Workplace Harassment and Mobbing. Lewiston, NY:  Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.

Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House, 2020.

VISUALIZING RELIGION & CULTURE

Arnheim, Rudolf. The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts. Berkeley: University of California, 1982.

Baer, Eva. The Human Figure in Islamic Art: Inheritances and Islamic Transformations. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Pub., 2004.

Barbash, Ilisa, Molly Rogers, and Deborah Willis. To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes. NY: Aperture, 2020.

Barnes, Ruth, Ed. Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies. London/NY: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Bennett, James. Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2006.

Blier, Suzanne Preston. African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Elias, Jamal J. Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.

Emigh, John. Masked Performance. The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theatre. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Ernst, Carl W. Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam. Boston & London: Shambhala, 2011.

Faïk-Nzuji, Clémentine M. Tracing Memory: A Glossary of Graphic Signs and Symbols in African Art and Culture. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1996.

Feeser, Andrea, Maureen Daly Goggin & Beth Fowkes Tobin. The Materiality of Color: The Production, Circulation, and Application of Dyes and Pigments, 1400-1800. Surrey: Ashgate, 2012.

Flood, Finbarr B. Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Gerritsen, Anne & Giorgio Riello, Eds. The Global Lives of Things: The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World. Abingdon, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2016.

Gülru, Necipoğlu & Alina Payne, Eds. Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Higham, Charles. Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia. Chicago: Arts Media Research, 2002.

Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta & Michael North, Eds. Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014.

Leoni, Fracesca. Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2016.

Napier, A. David. Masks: Transformation, and Paradox. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Pernet, Henry. Ritual Masks: Deceptions and Revelations. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1992.

Plate, S. Brent, Ed. Religion, Art, & Visual Culture. A Cross-Cultural Reader. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Protschky, Susie. Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

Quarcoopome, Nii O., Ed. Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 2010.

Promey, Sally M., Ed. Sensational Religion: Sensory Cultures in Material Practice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

Shay, Anthony. The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers: Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the Islamic World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Shukla, Pravina. The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.

Taussig, Michael. What Color is the Sacred? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Thakur, Laxman S. Visualizing a Buddhist Sutra: Text and Figure in Himalayan Art. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Yahya, Farouk. Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts. Leiden: Brill, 2016.