Romantic Passion A Universal Experience? |
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| Editor:
| Jankowiak, William
Jankowiak, William R. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-09686-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1995 |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
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Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the world. Contributors look beyond each society's "official" institutions to explore expressions of love, offering new perspectives on arranged marriages and polygamy and reexaminging as well the other side of the equation: rejection and grief.
Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the world. Contributors look beyond each society's "official" institutions to explore expressions of love, offering new perspectives on arranged marriages and polygamy and reexaminging as well the other side of the equation: rejection and grief.