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

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Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Desiring sex, longing for love : a tripartite conundrum / William Jankowiak and Thomas Paladino
  • 2. A biocultural approach to sex, love, and intimacy in Central African foragers and farmers / Bonnie L. Hewlett and Barry S. Hewlett
  • 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
  • 4. "With one word and one strength" : intimacy among the Lahu of southwest China / Shanshan Du
  • 5. Interplay of love, sex, and marriage in a polyandrous society in the high Himalayas of India / Geetanjali Tiwari
  • 6. Voiced intimacies : verbalized experiences of love and sexuality in an Indonesian society / Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
  • 7. Love work in sex work (and after) : performing at love / Denise Brennan
  • 8. "She liked it best when she was on top" : intimacies and estrangements in Huli men's marital and extramarital relationships / Holly Wardlow
  • 9. Intimacy, infidelity, and masculinity in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith
  • 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 and Laura Mixson.