The nature and evolution of romantic love / Helen Fisher -- Love's contingencies : the development socioecology of romantic passion / James S. Chisholm -- Love as an experience of transcendence / Charles Lindholm -- Boundaries of love / Jan Collins and Thomas Gregor -- Rethinking heterosexual relationships in Polynesia : a case study of Mangaia, Cook Island / Helen Harris -- Love, lust and found in Nigeria / Leonard Plotnicov -- The madness of excess : love among the Fulbe of North Cameroun / Helen A. Regis -- Notions of love and romance among the Taita of Kenya / Jim Bell -- Romantic passion in the People's Republic of China / William Jankowiak -- Passion as politics : romantic love in an Australian Aboriginal community / Victoria Katherine Burbank -- A good spouse is hard to find : marriage, spouse exchange, and infatuation among the Copper Inuit / Pamela R. Stern and Richard G. Condon -- Possessed by love : gender and romance in Morocco / Douglas A. Davis and Susan Schaefer Davis -- Language of love in Northeast Brazil / L.A. Rebhun -- Putting romance into systems of sexuality : changing smart rules in a Trinidadian village / Kevin A. Birth and Morris Freilich -- The balance of duty and desire in an American polygamous community / William Jankowiak and Emilie Allen