To Mother Culture: Redeeming the Lost Rites of Matrimony, Patrimony, and Ceremony

by Stephen Jenkinson

A reclamation of cultural tradition in the ritual of matrimony for our ceremonially illiterate time

In a time when communal rituals and cultural ceremonies fail, longtime scholar, storyteller, and ceremonialist Stephen Jenkinson asks what it means to lose cultural inheritance. In examining matrimony and its ritual twin, patrimony, Matrimony contemplates culture-making, building and preserving cultural memory, and the ache of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649634080
• ISBN13: 9781649634085
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"