Re: anthropology reference needed

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urshotchkiss@cc.memphis.edu wrote:
: I am writing a paper dealing with courting rituals in different societies. If
: anyone could share a possible resource for such a topic, it would be greatly
: appreciated. Thanks, R.Hotchkiss
:

Here are four major book length anthropological studies of
courtship:


Holland, Dorothy C. & Margaret A. Eisenhart
1990 Educated in romance: Women, achievement, and college
culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (273 pp).
[Southeastern United States]

Leonard, Diana Leonard
1980 Sex and generation: A study of courtship and weddings.
London: Tavistock Publications. (315 pp). [Wales, United
Kingdom]

Malinowski, Bronislaw
1929 The sexual life of savages in North-Western Melanesia: An
ethnographic account of courtship, marriage, and family life
among the natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New
Guinea. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (506 pp).

Taggart, James Mounsey
1990 Enchanted maidens: Gender relations in Spanish folktales of
courtship and marriage. Princeton: Princeton University
Press.

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