Love and marriage cultural diversity in a changing world /
"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,...
| Main Author: | Nanda, Serena, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Long Grove, IL :
Waveland Press, Inc.,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
x, 142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cultural diversity in a changing world
- Contradictions, conflicts, and change : the United States
- From past to present : love and marriage in China
- Marriage and love : variations on a theme in modern Indian
- Sexuality, love, and marriage : the Brazilian favela
- Diversity in Islam : exploring the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Matriarchy and matriliny : the Minangkabau of Indonesia
- Courtship, marriage, and fidelity : the Igbo of Nigeria
- Fact and fantasy : sexuality in Polynesia
- Brothers share a wife : fraternal polyandry in the Himalayas
- Same-sex relationships : variations in sexuality, love, and marriage
- Romantic love and marriage : similarities and differences in a changing world.