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That romantic love is a route to moral perfection is an idea that few civilizations have shared with our own. Arranged marriages are the norm in many non-Western cultures, and in India, for instance, contemporary young people have voluntarily returned to the tradition of arranged marriage because they believe such arrangements usually make for more stable families...
...truly study gender and sexuality, scholars should have breadth; they ought to be conversant in the biology of sex, the anthropology of Western and non-Western families, theories of sex difference beginning with Aristophanes and Greek philosophers, and a measure of knowledge about art history. Rudimentary sociology and history wouldn't hurt, either...
...world's great traditions, perhaps one of its few universal traditions: the search for spiritual truth. Divinely Inspired: Images of Mystics and Mendicantsis a small but eloquent exhibit tucked away on the second floor of the Sackler Museum that provides a glimpse of the Different religious conceptions of non-Western cultures. The figures portrayed in the exhibit are on their way to awareness and enlightenment, while the exhibit itself attempts do make these spiritual quests into a coherent and interesting ensemble, and if does so rather well. The paintings, drawings and photographs are collected from the 16th to the 20th...
According to DeLancy, non-Western works may be neglected in a chronological format...
...course's chronologically-arranged text used in B-10, Story of Art, "anything non-Western is given a little chapter," DeLancy says...