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

By Vassos Argyrou

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
052161984X, 9780521619844, 0521560950, 9780521560955, 9780511521034
LCC
GT2774.5.C93 A74 1996
Google Books ID
bbLANYmNwqoC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7587994 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 101
Pages
224\223
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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