994 REVIEWS © 2021 European Association of Social Anthropologists. Gammerl, Benno, Philipp Nielsen and Margrit Pernau (eds.) 2019. Encounters with emotions: negotiating cultural differences since early modernity. New York: Berghahn Books. 316 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 978‐1-78920-223-6. Encounters with emotions investigates the role of ‘emotions’ in what is largely understood as transcultural ‘encounters’. The two quoted terms are the book’s main overarching, intertwined concep- tual spaces. The term ‘encounter(s)’ has been conspicuous in history and anthro- pology for decades. In global history, it was largely assumed to be ‘civilisa- tional’ interactions (with religious and/ or national undertones) – a usage that still tints the most diverse understand- ings, from Samuel Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ to postcolonial theory and Webb Keane’s ‘semiotic ideology’. Since the late 1970s, anthropologists reappro- priated the term to frame cross‐cultural situations, from colonial and mission- ary encounters to the anthropologist’s encounter with the studied ‘other’. The term today evokes this interface between history and anthropology and, despite a plethora of usages, most contemporary authors engage with it only suggestively, evading overt defnitions. Often, this lack of normativity is what attracts scholars to employ the term in large overarching conference titles or edited volumes. Yet, Encounters with emotions is a welcomed departure from this trend. The agentive role of ‘emotions’, the book’s other conceptual space, has been until recently largely absent from his- torical analysis. In anthropology, while emotions have been at the centre since Malinowski and the Boasian Culture and Personality School, new developments coalescing in the ‘affective turn’ have considerably renewed the feld. The edi- tors and authors of Encounters with emo- tions follow closely these developments in the anthropological study of both ‘encounters’ and ‘emotions’ and overtly incorporate them into their analysis. However, the book’s most import- ant contribution is not theoretical; it is exploring different facets of how emo- tions have infuenced (mostly) transcul- tural encounters from the 17th century to the present. Each chapter revolves around a type of social actor, encom- passing: missionaries (Stephen Cummins and Joel Lee); travellers (Edgar Cabanas, Razak Khan and Jani Marjanen); anthro- pologists (Pascal Eitler and Joseph Ben Prestel); entrepreneurs (Agnes Arndt); diplomats (Ute Frevert); occupiers and civilians (Philipp Nielsen); prisoners (Pavel Vasilyev and Gian Marco Vidor); ‘monsters’ (Daphne Rozenblatt); per- formers (Kedar A. Kulkarni); and lov- ers and friends (Margrit Pernau). The contexts within each chapter are as diverse as: Christian missions in India and China; transformative journeys of European nobility to the Orient; anthro- pologist‐endorsed and concealed treat- ments of emotions; the transnational business of entrepreneurs from the 19th century to the present; Genufection and Kowtow in European–Chinese encoun- ters; the emotional behavioural stan- dards of British soldiers in 18th‐century India, Jewish–German relations in East Europe during the First World War and post‐1945 German–Allied encounters in Occupied Germany; literary intracul- tural encounters with inmates; Pierre Rivière’s and Louis Althusser’s encoun- ters with familial murders; performers’ and public encounters with a Kathakali King Lear; and European bibis and romantic love in 18th‐century India and Orientalist stereotypes among hippies of the 1960s. Despite this extremely diverse con- tent, the book’s conceptual spaces are remarkably consistent and well‐weaved, perhaps partially because most of the