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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783508103321

Autore

Leeds-Hurwitz Wendy

Titolo

Wedding as text : communicating cultural identities through ritual / / Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2002

ISBN

1-135-69421-4

1-282-59624-1

9786612596247

1-4106-0632-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Routledge Communication Series

Disciplina

306.845

392.5/0973

Soggetti

Marriage customs and rites - United States

Interethnic marriage - United States

Intercultural communication

Semiotics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Interlude 1; 1 Introduction; Interlude 2; 2 Community; Interlude 3; 3 Ritual; Interlude 4; 4 Identity; Interlude 5; 5 Meaning; Interlude 6; 6 Conclusion; Theoretical Appendix; Methodological Appendix; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 that accommodates those differences. In this volume, author Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz documents the weddings of 112 couples from across the United States, studied over a 10-year period. She focuses on intercultural weddings--interracial, interethnic, interfaith, international, and interclass--looking at how real people are coping with cultural differences in their lives.