Intimacies : love and sex across cultures / edited by William R. Jankowiak.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Jankowiak, William R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Sex--Cross-cultural studies.
• Intimacy (Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies.
• Love--Cross-cultural studies.
• Interpersonal relations--Cross-cultural studies.
• Interpersonal relations.
• Love.
• Intimacy (Psychology).
• Sex.

Genre:

• Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]

Summary:

The Pursuit of Love and Sex has generated an infinite number of ambiguities and contradictions, yet every community hopes to find a resolution to this conflict either by joining, dividing, or stressing one act over the other. In this follow-up to Romantic Passion: A Universal Experience?, William R. Jankowiak examines how different cultures rationalize the expression of passionate and comfort love and physical sex. He begins by mapping out the intricacies of the love/sex conundrum and the psychological dilemma of reconciling these competing forces. He then follows with essays on sex, love, and intimacy among Central African foragers and farmers; the love dyad in Lithuania; intimacy among the Lahu of Southwestern China; the interplay of love, sex, and marriage in the High Himalayas; verbalized experiences of love and sexuality in Indonesia; love work as it relates to sex work among prostitutes; intimacies and estrangements in the marital and extramarital relationships of Huli men; infidelity and masculinity in Southwestern Nigeria; and the ritual of sex and the rejuvenation of the love bond among married couples in the United States.

Contents:

• 1 Desiring Sex, Longing for Love: A Tripartite Conundrum / William Jankowiak, Thomas Paladino 1
• 2 A Biocultural Approach to Sex, Love, and Intimacy in Central African Foragers and Farmers / Bonnie L. Hewlett, Barry S. Hewlett 37
• 3 Self, Other, and the Love Dyad in Lithuania: Romantic Love as Fantasy and Reality (Or, When Culture Does and Doesn't Matter) / Victor C. De Munck 65
• 4 "With One Word and One Strength": Intimacy Among the Lahu of Southwest China / Shanshan Du 95
• 5 Interplay of Love, Sex, and Marriage in a Polyandrous Society in the High Himalayas of India / Geetanjali Tiwari 122
• 6 Voiced Intimacies: Verbalized Experiences of Love and Sexuality in an Indonesian Society / Birgitt Rottger-Rossler 148
• 7 Love Work in Sex Work (and After): Performing at Love / Denise Brennan 174
• 8 "She Liked It Best When She Was on Top": Intimacies and Estrangements in Huli Men's Marital and Extramarital Relationships / Holly Wardlow 194
• 9 Intimacy, Infidelity, and Masculinity in Southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith 224
• 10 "I Have His Heart, Swinging Is Just Sex": The Ritualization of Sex and the Rejuvenation of the Love Bond in an American Spouse Exchange Community / William Jankowiak, Laura Mixson 245.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Appendix: the ethnographic evidence for the universality of romantic love": pages [267]-279.

ISBN:

• 9780231134361
• 0231134363
• 9780231134378
• 0231134371
• 9780231508766
• 023150876X

OCLC:

173299030