Bollywood Weddings - Dating, Engagement, and Marriage in Hindu America

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Kavita Ramdya is an independent researcher in American Studies. For more information on Kavita and Bollywood Weddings check out her website at http://www.bollywood-weddings.com/Home.html. Klappentext Bollywood Weddings explores how Indian-American Hindus negotiate two vastly different wedding cultures: those of mainstream America and of Hindu India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and drawing on recent advances in material culture studies, Ramdya suggests that Bollywood, whose Indian origins grants it authenticity from the Hindu perspective and whose emphasis on romance accommodates American values, emerges as the key mediating third culture that allows Indian-American Hindus to reinforce their community's identity as ethnic and American even as it confirms that success in America need not be bought at the expense of one's religious background and cultural heritage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 The Marriage Market: Choosing a Suitable Boy Chapter 2 The Engagement Proposal: To Dower or To Diamond? Chapter 3 Wearing Ethnicity: The Indian-American Hindu Bridal Industry Chapter 4 Pre-Wedding Rituals: Maintaining Both Indian-Hindu and Mainstream-American Traditions Chapter 5 The Wedding Day: Improvising on Hindu and American Traditions

Product details

• Authors: Kavita Ramdya, Ramdya Kavita
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2009
• EAN: 9780739138540
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3854-0
• No. of pages: 99
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Practical guides; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Anthropology, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Sociology: family & relationships, United States of America, USA, Sociology: family and relationships, Cultural studies: customs and traditions