Tradition and modernity in the Mediterranean
Subtitle: the wedding as symbolic struggle
By: Vassos Argyrou.
Series: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ;; 101
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Marriage customs and rites -- Cyprus.; Social change -- Cyprus.; Social classes -- Cyprus.; Cyprus -- Social life and customs.
Description: The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernization, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations. He argues that modernization is not a process that makes a society "modern" but a legitimizing discourse. It is an idiom that Greek Cypriots employ to represent, and contest, relationships between social classes, old and young, men and women, the city and the village.

It is also the way in which they conceptualize, and submit to, the symbolic domination of Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-204) and index.