Love and marriage : cultural diversity in a changing world /

Love and marriage : cultural diversity in a changing world /

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Author / Creator:	Nanda, Serena, author.
Imprint:	Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, Inc., [2019] ©2019
Description:	x, 142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Love -- Cross-cultural studies. Love -- History. Love -- Social aspects. Marriage -- Cross-cultural studies. Marriage customs and rites -- Cross-cultural studies. Sex customs -- Cross-cultural studies. Culture. Marriage.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11782977

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ISBN:	9781478637554 1478637552
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index.
Summary:	"Cultural anthropologist Serena Nanda mines a wide range of ethnographic research to examine the patterns of love, marriage, sexuality, and family unique to eight cultures around the world. After reviewing changing patterns in the United States, readers are taken to China, India, Brazil, Iran, Indonesia, Nigeria, the South Pacific, and Nepal to explore traditions and transformations and the intertwining dynamics of kinship, class, politics, religion, and gender roles in love and marriage. An additional chapter traces the diversity of LGBTQ relationships, with contemporary examples drawn from the US, Indonesia, and India. A valuable summary chapter features a brief analysis of similar and different cultural configurations. Nanda's ethnographically rich examples and fresh perspective will challenge readers to understand that their own culture is not natural or superior but rather just one of many possibilities adapted to specific environments and subject to changes"--Publisher's website.

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Call Number:	GN480.N36 2019
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