Cultural Typologies of Love

The timely volume offers an integrative approach and provides a general picture of how a cultural diversity of love conceptions, experiences, and expression builds individual and cultural typologies of love. It comprehensively presents cultural and cross-cultural studies on how culture affects love into systematic description of types and cultural models of love. The comprehensive reviews of methodology and findings, which are presented in the book, sets up the background and perspectives for further cross-cultural exploration of love. This book will be useful for researchers interested in cross-cultural studies of love across many disciplines.  Its accessible language also makes it ideal for both graduate and undergraduate students.  Readers will gain comprehensive understanding of:-          cultural conceptions of love and methods for their research-          multiple perspectives in the studies of love across world cultures-          cultural models and typologies in an international perspective-          cultural models and typologies from an interdisciplinary scientific perspective