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Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle

Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle

Argyrou, Vassos
Fortes, Meyer
Vassos, Argyrou

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Book 101

WeddingsAnthropology

ISBN10: 052161984X
ISBN13: 9780521619844
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 17 2005
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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