Title: Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and Love Book Description: Delve into the captivating world of human relationships as you journey through the pages of "Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and Love." This thought-provoking book unravels the intricate tapestry of cultural norms, traditions, and values that shape the ways in which we express affection, navigate conflicts, and celebrate milestones. From arranged marriages to cross-cultural unions, this book takes you on a global exploration of how diverse societies approach love and marriage. Discover the significance of rituals, the influence of family and community, and the evolving dynamics in our modern world. As you immerse yourself in the pages, you'll gain insights into the complexities of cultural communication, the impact of globalization, and the importance of embracing diversity in our relationships. With each chapter, "Cultural Perspectives on Marriage and Love" invites you to expand your horizons, challenge assumptions, and celebrate the unity that arises from the diverse ways we experience and cherish love. Whether you're seeking to enhance your own relationships or simply exploring the richness of human connections, this book will inspire you to appreciate the intricate interplay between culture, love, and commitment.

With the advent of technology that is progressively shrinking the global community, this study aims to assess how intimate relationships are carried out in a wide array of societies. The multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach should appeal to students of a wide range of disciplines.

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.

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today’s marital debate.

Evolution and Popular Narrative argues that an evolutionary approach to popular narrative provides an incisive index into human nature. The contributors explore various media and genres to gauge the interdependency of human nature and culture in our aesthetic appreciation.

From their location in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, the Weisfelds’ lab has reached out for thirty years to couples in long-term partnerships around the world. In living rooms of Detroit, London, Moscow, Beijing, and beyond, couples of all types and ages have shared their insights into adult romantic relationships. This book, The Psychology of Marriage, is a distillation of these findings, which have appeared in dozens of book chapters, journal articles, and conference presentations. The book also provides new systematic comparisons that offer insights into the mysteries of marriage and other committed relationships. Scholars, professional counselors, and family therapists will find a helpful framework for thinking about cultural similarities and differences in marital dynamics. Researchers will be introduced to a robust new instrument, the Marriage and Relationship Questionnaire (MARQ), which can be used in heterosexual and same-sex couples in virtually any cultural setting, along with ethical guidelines for conducting this research. Anyone who is interested in why committed relationships work (or do not work) will find the book filled with compelling new insights.