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Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean
The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521619844
Veröffentl:
2005
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.03.2005
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Vassos Argyrou
Gewicht:
371 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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
The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out local differences. Rather, it is a legitimising discourse. It is an idiom which Greek Cypriots employ to represent, and contest, relationships between social classes, old and young, men and women, city folk and villagers. At the same time, by involving modernisation, they are submitting to foreign standards, and accepting the symbolic domination of Europe.
Argyrou examines modernisation, reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations.
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.