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Unlocking the love-lock : the history and heritage of a contemporary custom /
"A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific - and secular - purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance. This custom is 'love-locking', where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dating love: a history of the love-lock custom
- Consuming love: folk custom and popular culture
- Excavating love: the material culture of love-locking
- Locking love: the ethnography of love-locking
- Symbolizing love: the semiotics of love-locking
- Selling love: the commercialization of love-locking
- Unlocking love: controversy and heritage
- Conclusion: a final case-study.