Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Auteur : Karandashev Victor
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 love.- Part 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 America.- Chapter 11. Love in Modern Australia and among the Indigenous People of Australia, Polynesia, and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 12. Marriage and Love inAfrica in the 20th Century.- Chapter 13. Romantic Love in China.- Chapter 14 Romantic love and culture: Reviewing past and looking forward.- References.
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.
Date de parution : 01-2017
Ouvrage de 305 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 07-2018
Ouvrage de 305 p.
15.5x23.5 cm