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Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts, 1st ed. 2017
Author: Karandashev Victor
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Publication date: 01-2017
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This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love. What is romantic love and how is it different from and similar to other kinds of love? How is romantic love related to sex and marriage in human history and across contemporary cultures? What cultural factors mediate attraction in love? These are some of the questions the volume explores through its interdisciplinary yet focused lens.
Much of the current research evidence suggests that love is a universal emotion experienced by a majority of people, in various historical eras, and in all the world?s cultures. Yet, love displays in different ways because culture has an impact on people?s conceptions of love and the ways they feel, think, and behave in romantic relationships. This volume summarizes classical knowledge on love and culture while at the same time focusing sharply on recent studies and cutting-edge research that has advanced the field.Overall I find Dr. Victor Karandashev is an excellent and fine scholar who has a firm grasp of both the fundamental principles of cross-cultural research and of anthropology. In our increasingly connected world Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts updates and adds to the descriptions and explanations of similarities and differences in romantic love across generations and cultures. Romantic love encompasses the life span, rather than being a phenomenon largely confined to youthful years. The topic of this project concerns the deepest of our sentiments and pervades life from birth to death. This book contributes to better knowledge of this phenomenon across generations.
Félix Neto
(Professor of Psychology)
Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Foreword by Elaine Hatfield
Part I. Romantic love: Conceptualizations and approaches
Chapter 1. The concept of romantic love
Chapter 2. Cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to romantic lovePart II. Historical and cultural perspectives on romantic love
Chapter 3. The Ancients Were Open to Love
Chapter 4. Love in the Pre-Medieval and Medieval Era
Chapter 5. Further Developments of Romantic Love in the 16th through 19th Centuries
Chapter 6. Love during the 19th and early 20th Centuries
Part III. Modern Love Around the World<
Chapter 7. Love in Modern America and Europe
Chapter 8. Romantic Love in the Arab World
Chapter 9. Love in South Asia
Chapter 10. Love in Latin AmericaChapter 11. Love in Modern Australia and among the Indigenous People of Australia, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia
Chapter 12. Marriage and Love in Africa in the 20th Century
Chapter 13. Romantic Love in China Chapter 14 Romantic love and culture: Reviewing past and looking forwardReferences
Dr. Victor Karandashev taught in Russian universities for many years and has published three textbooks for psychology courses. In the late 1990s and 2000s, he conducted research on international psychology in several European countries, including universities in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, as well as was a visiting professor and a Fulbright Scholar in the U.S.A. He co-edited three volumes of Teaching Psychology Around the World (2007, 2009, 2012). He has presented his work related to international and cross-cultural psychology at several national and international conferences. During recent years he was actively engaged in the study of romantic love and has had several publications on the topic. Currently he works as Professor of Psychology at Aquinas College, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the key debates in love and culture scholarship
Explores both classical knowledge of love and culture and current cutting-edge research
Contains insights from the fields of relationship scholarship, sociology, anthropology, and history
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras