| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Dating love: a history of the love-lock custom -- Consuming love: folk custom and popular culture -- Excavating love: the material culture of love-locking -- Locking love: the ethnography of love-locking -- Symbolizing love: the semiotics of love-locking -- Selling love: the commercialization of love-locking -- Unlocking love: controversy and heritage -- Conclusion: a final case-study |
| Summary |
"A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific - and secular - purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance. This custom is 'love-locking', where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This custom became popular in the 2000s, and its dissemination was rapid, geographically unbound, and highly divisive, with love-locks emerging in locations as diverse as Paris and Taiwan; New York and Seoul; Melbourne and Moscow. This book explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Love-lock |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2020) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Dating (Social customs)
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Padlocks -- History
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Love -- Folklore
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Courtship
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courtships.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
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Dating (Social customs)
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Padlocks
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020033285 |
| ISBN |
9781789209235 |
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1789209234 |
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