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Cultural Anthropology


Modern Loves: The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow, eds.

Rights: World
For more info, contact Michael Kehoe at mkehoe@umich.edu

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world. The ethnographies describe young couples in Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, North America, and Singapore.

Jennifer S. Hirsch is Associate Professor in the Department of Scoiomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Holly Wardlow is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

November 2006
288 pages


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