ISBN:
9780511521034
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 210 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 101
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DDC:
392/.5/095693
Keywords:
Geschichte 1930-1995
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Alltag, Brauchtum
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Marriage customs and rites / Cyprus
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Social change / Cyprus
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Social classes / Cyprus
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Brauch
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Griechen
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Hochzeit
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Gesellschaft
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Cyprus / Social life and customs
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Zypern
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Zypern
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Hochzeit
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Brauch
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Griechen
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Geschichte 1930-1995
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Zypern
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Brauch
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Gesellschaft
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Geschichte 1930-1995
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
1. The island of Aphrodite -- 2. Nationalism and the poverty of imagination -- 3. The weddings of the 1930s -- 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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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511521034
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