Romantic Love

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Yolanda van Ede
LIT Verlag Münster, 2006 - 125 páginas

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Romantic Love and Anthropology
5
The Empowering Message of Romantic Love in Telenovelas
23
The Intimate Relationships of Dakarois Girls
41
An Example of Romantic Love from the Caribbean
63
The Entanglement of Love and Prostitution
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Reflections on Christian and Romantic Sentiments in Catholic Poland
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From Romance to Romanticism The Beatles Romantic Love and Cultural Change
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Página 6 - ... to other abnormalities. The hero of the modern American movie is always a romantic lover just as the hero of the old Arab epic is always an epileptic. A cynic might suspect that in any ordinary population the percentage of individuals with a capacity for romantic love of the Hollywood type was about as large as that of persons able to throw genuine epileptic fits.
Página 6 - It [a pure relationship] refers to a situation where a social relation is entered into for its own sake, for what can be derived by each person from a sustained association with another; and which is continued only in so far as it is thought by both parties to deliver enough satisfaction for each individual to stay within it.
Página 112 - ... like a thunderbolt and strikes at first sight; love is the most important thing in the world, to which all other considerations, particularly material ones, should be sacrificed...
Página 118 - Say the word and you'll be free, Say the word and be like me. Say the word I'm thinking of, Have you heard? The word is love.
Página 60 - Falade, Solange 1963 Women of Dakar and the Surrounding Urban Area. In: Denise Paulme (Ed.), Women of Tropical Africa.
Página 13 - ... units, permeable and shifting as they are, nonetheless have considerable solidity and autonomy, judging their own disputes and controlling their own means of production within a framework of traditional knowledge and local consent. The patrilineal patrilocal ideology means that members of the camp site have absolute rights and duties to one another that are legitimated by close blood ties and co-residence. Participation in blood feuds, payment of fines, rights to pasturage and the punishment...
Página 14 - In this context, romantic involvement, with all its risk, is the only human relationship in the whole of Marri culture felt to be of value in and for itself, and not simply as a means to the instrumental ends of personal power and prestige. It is understood by the Marri Baluch to be opposed to marriage in every way. Marriage is a public and sanctioned relationship between superior men and inferior women, often within the camp and the lineage, and always among allies; it is pre-eminently politically...
Página 13 - Bedouin, but we do have an ethnography of a group who live in an analogous environment and who have a similar stated belief in chaste love: these are the nomadic Marri Baluch of the rugged southeastern deserts of Iran, as described in a classic work by Robert Pehrson (1966). The Marri inhabit a harsh, isolated and unforgiving world. They are highly individualistic, self-interested and competitive, and expect opportunism and manipulation from all social transactions. Their personal lives are dominated...
Página 13 - This a dangerous matter, since other camps are hostile, and adultery is punishable by death. The striking contrast to the West is a consequence of the social organization of the Marri, who live in small patrilineal, patrilocal campsites ruled lightly by a religiously sanctioned central authority, called the Sardar. Although political domination does occur, the local units, permeable and shifting as they are, nonetheless have considerable solidity and autonomy, judging their own disputes and controlling...

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