Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience?

by WilliamJankowiak (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $42.95

  Observers from the West, the book contends, have incorrectly projected rigid ethnocentric notions of love and marriage onto cultures around the world. Contributors look beyond each society's official institutions to explore expressions of love, offering new perspectives on arranged marriages and polygamy and reexaminging as well the other side of the equation: rejection and grief.