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Wedding as Text Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual
Author: Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Year: 2002
Number of pages: 325
Format: PDF
File size: 18,98 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2002
Number of pages: 325
Format: PDF
File size: 18,98 MB
Language: ENG
This book studies those who have accepted cultural difference into their daily lives in the attempt to learn how they have managed to do successfully. A wedding serves as the beginning marker of a marriage--if a couple is to manage cultural differences throughout their relationship, they must first pass the hurdle of designing a wedding ceremony. Over 10 years of study, the weddings of 113 couples from across the United States were documented through ethnography. The focus is on intercultural weddings-interracial, interethnic, interfaith, international, or interclass-because the central issue faced in any of these cases is really the same one of cultural difference. A wedding is, among other things, an identity display. This book asks the basic question: How is it possible to display different identities simultaneously? A variety of answers are detailed in the case studies provided.
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