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  • 2000-2004  (4)
  • 1990-1994
  • 2003  (4)
  • Berkeley : University of California Press  (4)
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural  (4)
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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520930037 , 1597346209 , 9780520930032 , 9781597346207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 297 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 338.4/73925/0951249
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    Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Bridal shops ; Wedding photography ; Wedding supplies and services industry ; Weddings / Equipment and supplies ; Industrie ; Wirtschaft ; Wedding supplies and services industry ; Weddings Equipment and supplies ; Bridal shops ; Wedding photography
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Framings -- How can this be? ethnographic contexts and history -- Fantasy for sale -- Inner and outer worlds in changing Taipei -- Family wedding rites and banquets -- Making up the bride -- Romance in the photo studio -- Contextualizing bridal photos in Taiwan's visual culture -- The context of looking -- Conclusion : re-framings , With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV.
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520236610 , 0520240081 , 0520937503 , 1282359789 , 1417508353 , 1597345393 , 9780520236615 , 9780520240087 , 9780520937505 , 9781282359789 , 9781417508358 , 9781597345392
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 384 p.)
    Series Statement: Life passages
    DDC: 395.2/2
    Keywords: REFERENCE / Weddings ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Consumer behavior ; Popular culture ; Weddings ; Noces ; Noces dans la culture populaire ; Consommateurs / Comportement ; Bruiloft ; Populaire cultuur ; Consumentengedrag ; Weddings ; Weddings in popular culture ; Consumer behavior ; Hochzeit ; Hochzeit
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-363) and index , Romance, magic, memory, and perfection -- The rise of the lavish wedding -- The engagement complex -- The rituals of wedding shopping -- The wedding weekend -- From the cabin to Cancun -- Hollywood hosts a wedding -- The lavish wedding goes global -- Variations on a theme -- Luxury, lavishness, and love , A lavish wedding marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture - romantic love and excessive consumption. This work offers a look at the historical, social and psychological strains that come together to make it the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture
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  • 3
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520237056 , 0520238702 , 0520937228 , 1417508329 , 1597348775 , 9780520237056 , 9780520238701 , 9780520937222 , 9781417508327 , 9781597348775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 283 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/5
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    Keywords: Mariage interethnique / États-Unis ; Agences matrimoniales / États-Unis ; Mariage par correspondance / États-Unis ; Asiatiques / États-Unis ; Correspondance internationale / États-Unis ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Huwelijksbemiddeling ; Internet ; Vrouwen ; Aziaten ; Frau ; Gesellschaft ; Intercountry marriage ; Marriage brokerage ; Mail order brides ; Asians ; International correspondence Social aspects ; Interethnische Ehe ; Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Ehe ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; USA ; Interethnische Ehe
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index , Making introductions -- Ethnography in imagined virtual communities -- Feminism and myths of "mail-order" marriages -- Fairy tales, family values, and the global politics of romance -- Political economy and the cultural logics of desire -- Women's agency and the gendered geography of marriage -- Tales of waiting: history, immigration, and the state -- Conclusion: marriage, migration, and transnational families , By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities
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  • 4
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520237498 , 0520237501 , 052093699X , 9780520237490 , 9780520237506 , 9780520936997
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 331 pages)
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Anthropologie politique ; Archéologie du paysage / Aspect politique ; Paysage / Évaluation ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape ; Politieke antropologie ; Landschapsecologie ; Oudheid ; Anthropologie politique ; Archéologie du paysage / Aspect politique ; Archäologie ; Politische Anthropologie ; Geopolitik ; Politik ; Political anthropology ; Landscape archaeology Political aspects ; Landscape assessment ; Geopolitik ; Politische Anthropologie ; Geopolitik ; Politische Anthropologie
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-314) and index , Sublimated spaces -- Archaeologies of political authority -- Geopolitics -- Polities -- Regimes -- Institutions -- Conclusion: toward a cartography of political landscapes
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