ABSTRACT

This essay highlights the ‘boundary work’ accomplished through the identification and labelling of emotion with respect to the representation of communities and their memberships, the marking of group inclusion or exclusion, and the uses of emotion for shoring up, defining, and strengthening identities. It distinguishes between emotional self-identifications, the labelling practices that are used to mark the emotions of others, and the performances of emotions and practices of marking that are used for social mobility, for making claims to represent others, and for social reproduction. Bringing the author’s analysis of representations of emotion in the context of Telugu-speaking southern India into conversation with the essays in this volume, the essay identifies five different types of socio-cultural work that the performance, representation, and marking of emotion can perform. These include: (1) establishing one’s own membership in a group; (2) incorporating others; (3) staking a claim to represent others; (4) marking distinctions; and (5) reproducing existing social distinctions. While not an exhaustive list, nor always mutually exclusive, these categories are intended to illustrate a series of examples that provide a context for thinking about what is at stake in the representation, performance, and marking of emotion. The essay concludes with a recommendation to be attentive to the specific contexts in which emotion is performed, marked, or represented, and to ask who is doing the marking of emotion, what their relationships are to those who are marked as experiencing or displaying specific emotions, and what work such actions accomplish for those doing the marking.

摘要

本文着重介绍了通过对情感的识别和标记来完成的“边界工作”，这些情感涉及社区及其成员的代表，标记或不包括群体的标记以及使用情感来支持，定义和增强身份。它区分了情绪自我识别，用于标记他人情感的标签实践以及用于社交活动，声称自己代表他人和用于社会再生产的情感表现和标记实践。在本卷的论文中，作者将讲泰卢固语的印度南部语境中情感表现的分析与论文进行了对话，该论文确定了五种不同类型的社会文化工作，其表现，表现，和情感的标记可以执行。这些措施包括：（1）在一个小组中建立自己的成员资格；（2）纳入他人；（3）主张代表他人；（四）标记区别；（5）重现现有的社会区别。这些类别虽然不是详尽的清单，也不总是相互排斥的，但它们旨在说明一系列示例，这些示例提供了一个背景，用于思考在情感的表示，表现和标记中所涉及的问题。文章最后提出一项建议，要注意执行，标记或表示情感的特定环境，并询问谁在进行情感标记，与那些被标记为经历或表现出特定情感的人之间的关系是什么，以及此类操作对于进行标记的人员所完成的工作。