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The intention of this chapter is twofold: (1) to present a general insight into the code of honor and shame in an Indonesian society, using the anthropological means of a “thick description” to illustrate some of the theoretical issues raised by Casimir and Jung in the introductory chapter to this part and (2) to analyze the relation between social and emotional processes of change. Two general questions are particularly relevant for this last point: What role do emotions play within the context of innovative individual acts that initiate or process social change? How are cultural models of emotions (and thereby emotions themselves) transformed within the context of changing conditions in society?
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Röttger-Rössler, B. (2008). End of Honor? Emotion, Gender, and Social Change in an Indonesian Society. In: Markowitsch, H., Röttger-Rössler, B. (eds) Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09546-2_14
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