Atmospheres

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Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and immaterial bodies that comprise a situation. Yet an atmosphere is at the same time more than the sum of its parts. People often experience atmospheres as something that cannot be put into words easily; nevertheless, atmospheres enable or disable certain behaviours in situational and sometimes unpredictable ways. This entry outlines what atmospheres are, what they do, and how they can be analysed from an anthropological perspective. The entry shows that the study of atmospheres has significant explanatory power that anthropology should continue to explore.

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