Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean

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.

First sentence: It is May 1991. The flight from London Heathrow to Larnaca airport takes just over four hours.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

3

Pages

223

ISBN

9780521619844

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