In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS.
"Love in Africa" seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it....
In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the Unit...
"This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how anthropology matters to our understanding of the contemporary world and its global restructuring." --Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University
Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan...
"This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, ...
