Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Jankowiak, William R.
|
|---|
| ISBN: | 9780231508766
023150876X
9780231134361
0231134363
9780231134378
0231134371
|
|---|
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Appendix: the ethnographic evidence for the universality of romantic love": pages 267-279.
Restrictions unspecified
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Print version record.
|
|---|
| Summary: | No culture is ever completely successful or satisfied with its synthesis of romantic love, companionship, and sexual desire. Whether the setting is a busy metropolis or a quiet farming village, a tension always exists between a community's sexual habits and customs and what it believes to be the proper context for love. Even in Western societies, we prefer sexual passion to romance and companionship, and no study of any culture has shown that individuals regard passion and affection equally. The pursuit of love and sex has generated an infinite number of ambiguities and contradicti.
|
|---|
| Other form: | Print version: Intimacies. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008
|
|---|
