TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

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Número de artículo: 9780521560955

The wedding as symbolic struggle

VASSOS ARGYROU

CAMBRIDGE U.P., 1996

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9780521560955

 

The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations. He argues that modernisation is not a process that makes a society 'modern', but a legitimising discourse.