{"product_id":"love-apocalypse-new-intimacies-and-the-decline-of-marriage-and-fertility-paperback","title":"Love Apocalypse: New Intimacies and the Decline of Marriage and Fertility - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlex J. Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eVictor C. de Munck\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Jankowiak\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarriage and fertility rates are falling around the world, upending social security planning and threatening economic growth. In \u003ci\u003eLove Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e, anthropologists present their insights into this society-altering demographic shift, drawing on their research into the ways love, romantic relationships, and family are being transformed by cultural, social, and economic forces. Each case study in this volume examines a unique cultural context from either Asia (China, South Korea, Japan, India), Europe (Germany, Lithuania), or Latin America (Cuba, Peru), grounded in years of ethnographic research into how communities' experiences and perceptions of love, marriage, and family are changing in response to economic precarity, shifting gender relations, status competition, and diversifying cultural norms. It is increasingly clear that marriage and two-parent nuclear families will not be the universal norm of the twenty-first century even if this arrangement was largely idealized a mere generation ago. However, this does not mean the end of love, intimacy, or family but rather its transformation and the emergence of new intimate relationships and adaptations to the challenges and opportunities of life in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eALEX J. NELSON\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Indianapolis. His research explores the ethnology of romantic love, erotic entrepreneurship in commercial sexual economies, and the transformation of love, marriage, and gender relations in South Korea, where he has been conducting ethnographic field research since 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVICTOR C. DE MUNCK\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of anthropology at Vilnius University in the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies. He has conducted field work in Sri Lanka, Macedonia, Lithuania, Russia, and the US He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Love in America\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCultural Models\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWILLIAM JANKOWIAK\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has authored more than 124 articles\/book chapters and nine books (five edited). His research is conducted primarily in Northern China and in the US. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eIllicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community\u003c\/i\u003e (2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48398037156061,"sku":"9781978847675","price":87.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/0DrHQD83bH9781978847675.webp?v=1787219158","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/love-apocalypse-new-intimacies-and-the-decline-of-marriage-and-fertility-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}