| View Larger Image | Mate Selection Across Cultures | Paperbackby Raeann R. Hamon (Editor), Bron B. Ingoldsby (Editor)
| List Price: | $56.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc | | Page Count: | 312 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 14, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 1,299,808st |
|
ACCESSORIES |
| Health o Meter HDC100-01 "Grow with Me" Teddy Bear Scale for Babies and Toddlers
by Health o meter
The Health o meter Grow with me baby/toddler scale converts from tray to platform to support a child’s growth. It features a large 1.2” LCD display that makes reading the numbers easy. Accurately measures weight up to 60 pounds in increments of ½ ounce. The Healthy Growth Baby Book and Growth Chart that are included with the scale allow you to track your child’s height and weight against national averages.
| 
| Braun IRT 4020 ThermoScan Ear Thermometer
by Braun
Braun ThermoScan ear thermometer offers you peace of mind that you are taking your child's - adult's temperature in both a gentle and accurate way. It's tough enough being sick. So taking a temperature should not make you feel any worse. Thanks to infrared technology, Braun ThermoScan ear thermometers gently take a temperature in just seconds by measuring the heat generated by the eardrum and surrounding tissue. Braun ThermoScan is number one among doctors and mothers. It is used by more...
|
|
EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
"A book like this is needed because we teach about couple formation as in some ways ‘universal’ and in other ways culturally bound. We have few resources for showing how various countries and cultures are the same and yet different….I am interested in giving students a broad view of relationships and families, and this text would help me." --Susan Hendrick, Texas Tech University "I believe that this is a much needed book in the fields of personal relationships, family studies, psychology, and sociology….Increasingly, faculty in family studies, personal relationships and other fields are working to globalize and diversify their courses, and this book has the potential to be a true asset in such endeavors."-- Sally A. Lloyd, Miami University 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 beliefs and practices, political and historical contexts, socioeconomic standing, and interpersonal attraction affect the pairing process? Editors Raeann R. Hamon and Bron B. Ingoldsby examine the fascinating enterprise of mate selection and look at the similarities and differences of human bonds around the globe and across many societies. Mate Selection Across Cultures provides a contemporary, global perspective on the couple formation process in various regions of the world including countries such as Ecuador, Kenya, Israel, and many more. This book is unique in that it explores the vast sub-cultural diversity and variation that exists within any one country and also reviews such concepts as modernization/traditionalism, arranged marriage/free choice, love/family practicality, cohabitation/marriage, and collectivism/individualism. In addition to exploring these dichotomies, the editors delineate the partner selection process and investigate the practices, customs, traditions, rituals, and ceremonies associated with the formalization of these relationships.Features of this text: Expert contributors provide students with an "insider view" of the original research and of the existing literature on the individual countries and regions addressed Includes countries for which there is little or no published family scholarship Case studies, vignettes, and photos of courtship and wedding traditions across cultures enliven the text for readers Uniformity across chapters makes it easy for instructors and students to examine comparisons between and among different cultures Mate Selection Across Cultures is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in marriage, family, and human relations in Family Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, and related disciplines. |
SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| The Mating Game: A Primer on Love, Sex, and Marriage
by Pamela C. Regan (Author)
"The Mating Game is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, introductory text about human mating relationships aimed specifically at a university audience. It progresses beyond a psychological or biological/physiological stance and encompasses a wide array of disciplines. The comprehensive review and up-to-date information contained in The Mating Game not only provides answers to questions about important life events but also encourages readers' interest in the field of interpersonal...
| 
| The Handy Religion Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
by John Renard (Author)
The spiritual world we live in today is a diverse and sometimes highly individual mix of religious practices and beliefs. The physical world is a much smaller place, often secular in appearance but still very much fueled by religious beliefs and conflict in the name of God. The Handy Religion Answer Book provides solid descriptions of major beliefs and rituals worldwide, affording the reader an understanding of contemporary religion. Clearly and eloquently written by a scholar with 30 years of...
| 
| Minority Families in the United States: A Multicultural Perspective (3rd Edition)
by Ronald L. Taylor (Author)
Written by scholars who share an identity with the minority families they write about, this collection of essays offers a detailed description and analysis of the historical and contemporary forces that have shaped the structure and the role of social class and gender dynamics of the four dominant minority groups—African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American—and their sub-populations in the United States. The four dominant minority groups—African American, Hispanic, Asian, and...
| 
| Picture Bride: A Novel
by Yoshiko Uchida (Author)
Hana travels to America to escape the arranged marriages her sisters experienced in pre-World War II Japan, but the young businessman to whom she has corresponded turns out to be a middle-aged man who exaggerated his success.
| 
| The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
by Lori Alvord (Author), Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt (Author)
The first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.
A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord's struggles to bring modern medicine to the Navajo reservation in Gallup, New Mexico--and to bring the values of her people to a medical care system in danger of losing its heart.
Dr. Alvord left a dusty reservation in New Mexico for Stanford University Medical School, becoming the first Navajo woman...
|
|
|
