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Mate selection across cultures /

From the Publisher: Mate Selection Across Cultures explores one of the most basic human endeavors-couple formation-with particular attention to those relationships that lead to marriage. Which characteristics are most prized in a mate? How do variables like personal and cultural values, religious be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hamon, Raeann R., Ingoldsby, Bron B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Raeann R Hamon and Bron B Ingoldsby
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1: North America
  • 1: Mate selection process in the United States / Bron B Ingoldsby
  • Part 2: Caribbean And South America
  • 2: It's better in the Bahamas : from relationship initiation to marriage / Raeann R Hamon
  • 3: Mate selection preferences and practices in Ecuador and Latin America / Paul L Schvaneveldt
  • 4: Mate selection in Trinidad and Tobago: a multi religious, multicultural perspective / Winston Seegobin and Kristen M Tarquin
  • Part 3: Africa
  • 5: Tradition and change in family and marital processes: selecting a marital partner in Ghana / Baffour K Takyi
  • 6: Connecting generations: Kamba and Maasai paths to marriage in Kenya / Stephan M Wilson, Lucy W Ngige, and Linda J Trollinger
  • Part 4: Middle East
  • 7: Love, courtship, and marriage from a cross-cultural perspective: the upper middle class Egyptian example / Bahira Sherif-Trask
  • 8: Couple formation in Israeli Jewish society / Shulamit N Ritblatt
  • 9: Marriage in Turkey / Nuran Hortasu
  • Part 5: Europe
  • 10: Couple formation practices in Spain / J Roberto Reyes
  • 11: Development of intimate relationships in the Netherlands / Manfred H M van Dulmen
  • Part 6: Asia
  • 12: Mate selection in contemporary India: love marriages versus arranged marriages / Nilufer P Medora
  • 13: Transition of courtship, mate selection, and marriage in China / Yan R Xia and Zhi G Zhou
  • 14: Multiplicity of paths to couple formation in Japan / Colleen I Murray and Naoko Kimura
  • Author index
  • Subject index
  • About the editors
  • About the contributors.