Love in Africa
Jennifer Cole and Lynn Thomas
The University if Chicago Press
In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics.
Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life—a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS.
Publication date: 12 May 2009
978-0-2261-1353-1
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Added: 4 November 2009
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