The Making and Meaning of Relationships in Sri Lanka An Ethnography on University Students in Colombo /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Sirisena, Mihirini (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Culture, Mind, and Society
• Θέματα: Cross-cultural psychology.; Ethnography.; Ethnology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Cultural Anthropology.; Personality and Social Psychology.

This book proposes that romantic relationships-filtered through various socio-cultural sieves-can lead to the development of affective kin bonds, which underlie our sense of personhood and belonging. Sirisena argues that the process resembles an attempt to make strangers into kin, and that sort of a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Ruminating on Love and Love Relationships
• 3. Ayyas and Nangis in Love
• 4. Making it Real
• 5. My World in My Pocket: Phones, Relationships and Expectations
• 6. Balancing between Pleasure and Propriety: Where, What and How
• 7. Sex Games: Pleasures and Penance
• 8. Magēma Kenek: On Future and Certainty
• 9. Reflections: Serious Relationships: Intersubjective Intermingling, Fuller lives and Embodied Emotions. .