This paper aims to conduct a brief overview of the situation of sociology and anthropology of emotions in Brazil, since its inception at the end of the first half of the 1990s to the present. It is based on, among other sources, in data collected at conferences and meetings in Brazil and Latin America, which had working groups in anthropology and sociology of emotions, or issues related to them.
sociology of emotions; anthropology of emotions; state of art; consolidation of subject area
