Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean - The Wedding As Symbolic Struggle

Informationen zum Autor Vassos Argyrou lectures in social anthropology at the University of Hull. He has also taught at Intercollege in Nicosia and several universities in the US, including Indiana State University, Reed College, Holy Cross College and Colgate University. Research interests include social and cultural theory, postcolonialism, ritual and myth, southern Europe Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation! as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations. He argues that modernisation is not a process that makes a society 'modern'! but a legitimising discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; l. The island of Aphrodite; 2. Nationalism and the poverty of imagination; 3. The weddings of the l930s; 4. The meaning of change; 5. Distinction and symbolic class struggle; 6. Anthropology and the specter of 'monoculture'; 7. The dialectics of symbolic domination.

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• Authors: Vassos Argyrou, Vassos (College of the Holy Cross Argyrou, Argyrou Vassos
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521619844
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61984-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Cambridge Studies in Social an; Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropol; Cambridge Studies in Social an; Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropol
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