Love as Affiliation: Who Crave for It, Who Doesn’t

PDF Version Many people, as social animals, experience the need for love as longing for affiliation with others. Why do some men and women experience this need for connection more intensely than others? Why do some crave affiliation in love … Continue reading

Milk Jug Symbolizes Love among the Turkana People

PDF version A milk jug is an object with an evident utilitarian function—consumption. Yet, the nomadic pastoralist women of northwestern Kenya cherish their traditional milk jug, the akirum, as a profound aesthetic masterpiece. What is so special about milk and … Continue reading

Sex and the Sacred in North American Indigenous Art

PDF version Is sexual love only a biological impulse or a desire for the divine? While traditional study tends to look at the art of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast within a narrow framework of tribe crests and … Continue reading