Talk of Love
How Culture Matters

312 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2001
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Culture’s Confusions: Who Wrote the Book of Love?
1. Finding Culture
2. Repertoires
Part II. How Culture Works: Love Stories
3. Examined and Unexamined Lives
4. Cultured Capacities and Strategies of Action
5. Settled and Unsettled Lives
Part III. Culture From the Outside In: Love and Marriage
6. Love and Marriage
7. Ties That Do Not Bind
8. Codes, Contexts, and Institutions
Conclusion - Toward Better Questions
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part I. Culture’s Confusions: Who Wrote the Book of Love?
1. Finding Culture
2. Repertoires
Part II. How Culture Works: Love Stories
3. Examined and Unexamined Lives
4. Cultured Capacities and Strategies of Action
5. Settled and Unsettled Lives
Part III. Culture From the Outside In: Love and Marriage
6. Love and Marriage
7. Ties That Do Not Bind
8. Codes, Contexts, and Institutions
Conclusion - Toward Better Questions
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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