TY  - BOOK
AU  - Houlbrook,Ceri
TI  - Unlocking the Love-Lock: The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom 
SN  - 9781789209228
U1  - 306.73 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Dating (Social customs)
KW  - Love
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Padlocks
KW  - History
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - anthropology
KW  - archaeologist
KW  - beauty
KW  - commitment
KW  - contemporary custom
KW  - contemporary
KW  - cultural phenomenon
KW  - custom
KW  - engaging
KW  - engraving
KW  - heritage
KW  - historical
KW  - history
KW  - love
KW  - lovelocking
KW  - lovelocks
KW  - lovers
KW  - melbourne
KW  - moscow
KW  - mundane object
KW  - museum studies
KW  - new york
KW  - padlocks
KW  - page turner
KW  - paris
KW  - popular culture
KW  - realistic
KW  - retrospective
KW  - ritual tokens
KW  - romance
KW  - romantic commitment
KW  - romantic gestures
KW  - seoul
KW  - social science
KW  - symbolism
KW  - taiwan
KW  - touching
KW  - worldwide popularity
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations and Tables --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Dating Love --; Chapter 2. Consuming Love --; Chapter 3. Excavating Love --; Chapter 4. Locking Love --; Chapter 5. Symbolising Love --; Chapter 6. Selling Love --; Chapter 7. Unlocking Love --; Concluding Thoughts --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage. “[T]his is an eminently enjoyable and thorough investigation of a popular phenomenon through the lens of heritage and folk tradition.”—Sara De Nardi, Western Sydney University 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. From the introduction: I was distractedly perusing the photo frame aisle, my eyes skimming the generically sentimental stock pictures of happy families smiling at the camera, pretty landscapes, cute pets and couples walking hand-in-hand, when I came across one that jumped out at me…. I recognised the image instantly as a photograph of love-locks: the padlocks that had been appearing en masse on bridges and other public structures on a global scale since the early 2000s. And, having been researching the custom known as lovelocking for about five years at that point, it was with a peculiar sense of pride that I realised love-locks had accomplished the status of a stock image
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209235?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789209235
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ER  -