Emotions within the Framework of the Cultural-Anthropological Concept of Landscape

Abstract

Together with Rosaldo, Lyon argues against a forced separation of feeling, perception, understanding etc., by introducing an integrative perspective which unites emotion and cognition at the level of the body, thereby ending the dispute on biological or cultural patterns: “Emotions, like ideas, are located in the self and thus the two, emotion and cognition, are linked: emotions can be seen as ‘cognitions implicating the immediate, carnal <me> – as thoughts embodied’. Emotions ‘are about the ways in which the social world is one in which we are involved’” (1995: 253; emphasis in the original).