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BL
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984666
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b739036
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| Main Entry
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Argyrou, Vassos.
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| Title & Author
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Tradition and modernity in the Mediterranean : : the wedding as symbolic struggle /\ Vassos Argyrou.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1996.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ;; 101
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| Page. NO
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x, 210 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0521560950
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: 9780521560955
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-204) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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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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Changement social-- Chypre.
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Classes sociales-- Chypre.
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Mariage-- Rites et cérémonies-- Chypre.
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Changement social.
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Classes sociales-- Chypre.
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Manners and customs.
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Mariage-- Rites et cérémonies.
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Marriage customs and rites-- Cyprus.
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Marriage customs and rites.
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Social change-- Cyprus.
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Social change.
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Social classes-- Cyprus.
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Social classes.
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Bruiloft.
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Grieken.
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Cyprus, Social life and customs.
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Cyprus, Social life and customs.
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Chypre, Mœurs et coutumes.
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Chypre, Moeurs et coutumes.
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Cyprus, Social life and customs.
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Cyprus.
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| Dewey Classification
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392/.5/095693
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| LC Classification
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GT2774.5.C93A74 1996
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| NLM classification
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73.43bcl
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