Introduction / Raeann R. Hamon and Bron B. Ingoldsby
Acknowledgments
pt. 1. North America
1. The mate selection process in the United States / Bron B. Ingoldsby
pt. 2. The Caribbean and South America
2. "It's better in the Bahamas" : from relationship initiation to marriage / Raeann R. Hamon
3. Mate selection preferences and practices in Ecuador and Latin America / Paul L. Schvaneveldt
4. Mate selection in Trinidad and Tobago : a multireligious, multicultural perspective / Winston Seegobin and Kristen M. Tarquin
pt. 3. Africa
5. Tradition and change in family and marital processes : selecting a marital partner in Ghana / Baffour K. Takyi
6. Connecting generations : Kamba and Maasai paths to marriage in Kenya / Stephan M. Wilson, Lucy W. Ngige, and Linda J. Trollinger
pt. 4. The Middle East
7. Love, courtship, and marriage from a cross-cultural perspective : the upper middle class Egyptian example / Bahira Sherif-Trask
8. Couple formation in Israeli Jewish society / Shulamit N. Ritblatt
9. Marriage in Turkey / Nuran Hortasu
pt. 5. Europe
10. Couple formation practices in Spain / J. Roberto Reyes
11. The development of intimate relationships in the Netherlands / Manfred H.M. van Dulmen
pt. 6. Asia
12. Mate selection in contemporary India : love marriages versus arranged marriages / Nilufer P. Medora
13. The transition of courtship, mate selection, and marriage in China / Yan R. Xia and Zhi G. Zhou
14. Multiplicity of paths to couple formation in Japan / Colleen I. Murray and Naoko Kimura
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