Book contents
- The New Psychology of Love
- The New Psychology of Love
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figure and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Love as Expansion of the Self
- Chapter 2 Entraining, Becoming, and Loving
- Chapter 3 The Evolution of Love in Humans
- Chapter 4 Neuroimaging of Love in the Twenty-first Century
- Chapter 5 Love Conceptualized as Mutual Communal Responsiveness
- Chapter 6 Love Is Political: How Power and Bias Influence Our Intimate Lives
- Chapter 7 Love, Desire, and Sexual Fluidity
- Chapter 8 Everyday Conceptions of Love
- Chapter 9 Passionate Love
- Chapter 10 Slow Love: Courtship in the Digital Age
- Chapter 11 Styles of Romantic Love
- Chapter 12 An Anthropologist Goes Looking for Love in All the Old Places: A Personal Account
- Chapter 13 A Behavioral Systems Approach to Romantic Love Relationships: Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex
- Chapter 14 When Love Goes Awry (Part 1): Applications of the Duplex Theory of Love and Its Development to Relationships Gone Bad
- Chapter 15 When Love Goes Awry (Part 2): Application of an Augmented Duplex Theory of Love to Personal and Situational Factors in Jealousy and Envy
- Index
- References
Chapter 12 - An Anthropologist Goes Looking for Love in All the Old Places: A Personal Account
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2018
- The New Psychology of Love
- The New Psychology of Love
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figure and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Love as Expansion of the Self
- Chapter 2 Entraining, Becoming, and Loving
- Chapter 3 The Evolution of Love in Humans
- Chapter 4 Neuroimaging of Love in the Twenty-first Century
- Chapter 5 Love Conceptualized as Mutual Communal Responsiveness
- Chapter 6 Love Is Political: How Power and Bias Influence Our Intimate Lives
- Chapter 7 Love, Desire, and Sexual Fluidity
- Chapter 8 Everyday Conceptions of Love
- Chapter 9 Passionate Love
- Chapter 10 Slow Love: Courtship in the Digital Age
- Chapter 11 Styles of Romantic Love
- Chapter 12 An Anthropologist Goes Looking for Love in All the Old Places: A Personal Account
- Chapter 13 A Behavioral Systems Approach to Romantic Love Relationships: Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex
- Chapter 14 When Love Goes Awry (Part 1): Applications of the Duplex Theory of Love and Its Development to Relationships Gone Bad
- Chapter 15 When Love Goes Awry (Part 2): Application of an Augmented Duplex Theory of Love to Personal and Situational Factors in Jealousy and Envy
- Index
- References
Summary
In 1986, I returned to Inner Mongolia, having lived there between 1981 and 1983. I wanted to understand how Mongolian youth were adapting to what was then becoming a new discourse in their lives – one in which the criteria for selecting a mate was changing. There was a shift away from social attributes as the dominant factors in mate selection to new criteria that saw love as an important consideration. Although “love,” the term itself, was rarely mentioned or infrequently referred to, I was struck by how many individuals felt that it was something to be valued, even cherished.
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- The New Psychology of Love , pp. 240 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018