Part I: The Feeling
Chapter 1: Cuteness and Cosmos
Chapter 2: The Sensations
Chapter 3: Universal Narrative Prototypes of Reunion, Culturally Adapted to Evoke Kama Muta
Part II: The Basic Theory, and Everyday Experiences
Chapter 4: Homo movens: What Evokes Kama Muta Experiences, and What Motives Emerge?
Chapter 5: Compassion, Heroism, and Victory
Chapter 6: Strategic Evocation of Kama Muta
Part III: Getting Deeper Into It
A Pivotal Idea: Kama Muta Is a Long-run Cause of the Cultural Practices that Evoke It
Chapter 7: How Not to Reify Words
Chapter 8: The Arts of Kama Muta
Chapter 9: Disasters, Memorials, and Mementos
Chapter 10: The Kama Muta Experience Is Generated by A Culturally Tuned Psychological Mechanism, The Psype
Part IV: Religion
Chapter 11: Mystical Religious Experiences
Chapter 12: Hinduism and Buddhism
Chapter 13: Islam
Chapter 14: Kama Muta in Pilgrimage and Pain
Chapter 15: Millennia of Meanings of Christian Tears
Chapter 16: The Locus of Kama Muta in Religion
Part V: The Big Picture
Chapter 17: Psychological, Social, Cultural, and Evolutionary Dynamics of Kama Muta
Chapter 18: The Joys of Knowing Kama Muta
Chapter 19: The Adventures of the Unknown
Glossary of Theoretical Constructs
Biography
Alan Page Fiske is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
