Vital and visceral in intensity, the affect has emerged as a research object in the social sciences in the last decade to the point of triggering an "affective turn" (Clough et al. 2007). The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the interest in developing this theme in anthropology and the potential of ethnographic research on affect or, more precisely as we suggest, affects.
Guest editors: Carine Plancke, Valerio Simoni