| Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle Contributor(s): Argyrou, Vassos (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521560950 ISBN-13: 9780521560955 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $120.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernization, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations. He argues that modernization is not a secular, progressive process that remodels the life of a society, ironing out local differences. Rather, it is an idiom--a legitimizing discourse--in which Cypriots represent, and contest, relationships among social classes, old and young, men and women, city folk and villagers. At the same time, by involving modernization, they are submitting to foreign standards, and accepting the symbolic domination of Europe. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Weddings - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 392.509 |
| LCCN: 95037466 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Event - Wedding |