Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual

by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805811427
• ISBN13: 9780805811421
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"