Creator: World Book Encyclopedia
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 392.5
Review Marriage Celebrations (World Book's Celebrations and Rituals Around the World) / World Book:
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 392.50973
List Price: $95.00
Price: $78.81
Review Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual (Communication) / Lawrence Erlbaum:A Volume in LEA's Communication Series. This book studies those who have accepted cultural difference into their daily lives in the attempt to learn how they have managed to do successfully. 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. Over 10 years of study, the weddings of 113 couples from across the United States were documented through ethnography. The focus is on intercultural weddings-interracial, interethnic, interfaith, international, or interclass-because the central issue faced in any of these cases is really the same one of cultural difference. A wedding is, among other things, an identity display. This book asks the basic question: How is it possible to display different identities simultaneously? A variety of answers are detailed in the case studies provided. Six weddings are described at length in an innovative presentation style; the rest are used as shorter examples of the many issues that arise and how specific couples have coped with them. The theoretical concepts of community, ritual, identity, and meaning are given extensive consideration. Because material culture is visible it often takes on a particularly important role in these and in other examples of ritual. [+]As a result, special attention is paid to food, clothing, and objects and their function as symbols in the complex semiotic event of a wedding. Focusing on how couples design a wedding ritual to simultaneously meet multiple and different requirements, this book provides: *extensive details of real behavior by real people (the result of the qualitative methods used in this research, specifically, ethnography); *an innovative format: six more traditional theoretical chapters-with examples integrated into the discussion-are matched to six "interludes" or detailed descriptions of the most successful examples of resolving intercultural differences; *a methodological appendix that details what was done and why these decisions were made; and *a theoretical appendix outlining the study's assumptions in detail.
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2003-09-06
Dewey code: 395.22
List Price: $105.00
Price: $63.99
Review Consumerism, Romance and the Wedding Experience / Palgrave Macmillan:In this fascinating study, Boden considers the changing social and cultural significance of the wedding in Britain. The book focuses upon a number of issues including the commercialization of the event, the dynamics of heterosexual partnerships, and the influence of romance. The new commercial wedding is further explored in relation to broader socio-structural transformations and the modernization of marriage law. This book draws upon the experiences of marrying couples as well as media evidence.
Publication date: 1992-06-05
Dewey code: 392.5
List Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00
Review Wedding Cakes and Cultural History / Routledge:The preparation of food, particularly that of a wedding cake, vividly illustrates how all food symbolizes traditional values. The product of a complex history, the wedding cake represents a challenge to both theories of ``structuralism'' and ``neo-structuralism. '' In Wedding Cakes and Cultural History, its fascinating history marks the occasion for a discussion of how use and meaning are involved in the creation of cultural forms. The evolution of the wedding cake can be minutely charted in a succession of recipes from Europe, America and other cultures from the late medieval period onward. In the wedding cake alone, the contemporary world can be observed taking shape.
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2007-11-25
Dewey code: 729
List Price: $85.00
Price: $53.40
Review Wedding Emotions / Stichting Kunstboek:After their very successful debut Emotions by Life3 , three top florists Per Benjamin, Tomas De Bruyne and Max van de Sluis want to surprise the floral world with a new book. Bridal floral art like this has never been shown before. Obviously this beautiful album pays a lot of attention to the bouquet as well as to corsages, boutonniSres, car decorations and church ornamentations. But, Life 3 also adds another dimension. This publication contains elaborate reports of six extraordinary weddings, each with their own atmosphere which is materialised in the book.
Authors
- Ms. Jacqueline Marie Musacchio Ph.D.
Dewey code: 392.5094551109024
List Price: $65.00
Price: $38.87
Review Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace / Yale University Press:Although we live in an era when vast sums of money are lavished on wedding festivities, we are not unique: in Renaissance Italy, middle- and upper-class families spent enormous amounts on marriages that were intended to establish or consolidate the status and lineage of one or both of the respective families. This lavishly illustrated book explores the social and economic background to marriage in Renaissance Florence and discusses the objects—paintings, sculptures, furniture, jewelry, clothing, and household items—associated with marriage and ongoing family life. By analyzing urban palaces and their furnishings, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio shows how families interacted with art on a daily basis. This began at marriage, when the bride brought a dowry and the groom provided the home and its furnishings. It continued with the accumulation of objects during the marriage and the birth of children. And it ended with the redistribution of these same objects at death. Through the examination of art, documents, literature, and more, this lively book traces the life cycle of the Florentine Renaissance family through the art and objects that surrounded them in their home. .
Creator: Padraig O Healai
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 392.50941
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review The Form and Function of Ritual Dialogue in the Marriage Traditions of Celtic-language Cultures / Edwin Mellen Press:The study examines the form and function of ritual dialogue in marriage traditions, paying particular attention to the betrothal ceremony or reiteach in Gaelic Scotland, along with analogues in Brittany and Wales, while also exploring the relationship between the ritual dialogues and traditions such as flyting and bardic contest. What emerges is a picture of the multi-referential potential of this form of ritual speech and the symbolic significance which lies behind the surface meaning. The human drama of marriage is seen to be submerged within an all-encompassing symbolic event which adopts as its structure the spirit of conflict, dramatising the give and take of the relationship the community both desires and fears.
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2004-11-23
Dewey code: 392.5
List Price: $85.00
Price: $61.95
Review Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons / ABC-CLIO:An encyclopedia of marriage rites, traditions, and beliefs from around the world, ranging from ancient practices to contemporary ceremonies. Like other social rituals, weddings are filled with traditions that everyone accepts as meaningful and necessary. But when and how did all those necessary things originate? The bouquet and the white dress? The Huppah and the smashed glass? The Muslim wedding's henna night? Or even the notion that weddings should take place in churches? Didn't they always? Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons cordially invites you to explore the rites, rituals, and iconography of weddings from around the globe. In more than 200 alphabetically organized entries, an accomplished folklorist describes the key components and beliefs related to marriage across a representative selection of the world's cultures. Tracing the evolution of wedding ceremonies from their beginnings to their contemporary forms, Marriage Customs of the World dispels many myths and uncovers a number of intriguing connections and variations across different peoples. Readers will learn that the church wedding was not practiced in Europe until the 16th century, that the white bridal dress is a 20th-century development, and that the canopy associated with Jewish weddings is also commonly used in Sri Lanka, Egypt, and Finland. Engaging, authoritative, and insightful, Marriage Customs of the World is the ideal reference for investigating both familiar and exotic practices and for exploring what is both specific and universal about the role of marriage in societies everywhere.
Publication date: 1996-03
Dewey code: 392.5095114
List Price: $150.00
Price: $141.21
Review Marriage, Kinship and Power in Northern China (Collected Studies Series, 516) / Variorum:This volume on changing marriage practices and kinship structures in China focus on the interaction between the ruling elites and their Chinese subjects. It covers three themes: the adaptability of steppe society; shifts in inheritance procedure; and changes in social parameters.
Publication date: 2007-01
Dewey code: 392.5
List Price: $99.95
Price: $89.17
Review The Wedding Present: Domestic Life Beyond Consumption / Ashgate Publishing:Using the 'wedding present' as a case study, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption. Focusing on gift-giving in Britain from 1945 to the present day, with comparative material from North America and Europe, Purbrick investigates the ritualized presentation of objects upon marriage and their subsequent cycles of exchange within the domestic sphere. Making historical, theoretical and methodological contributions to the analysis of contemporary consumption, the book presents new material on the enactment of exchange relationships within everyday domesticity, while re-evaluating consumption theory and examining the methodology of recent studies in consumption and domesticity. The author tests the assumption that consuming creates individual identities, by considering how the specific contexts in which consumption occurs, such as married domesticity, can limit possible versions of selfhood, arguing that consumption cannot be isolated as an explanation of individual or social formation.
Publication date: 2003-06-01
Dewey code: 395
List Price: $50.00
Price: $40.00
Review Wedding Days (Greek Edition) / Alba Editions:Once the dizzying moment of a marriage proposal has been passed and the bride-to-be has accepted, her mind will be taken up with a million questions and problems, most of them worries over planning the wedding. Don't panic. Just turn to this great "cookbook" and wedding planner for all kinds of advice. The main chapters cover the proposal (the bride, the groom, the parents), organizing the wedding (family affair, the engagement, the rehearsal etc. ), the reception (minimal wedding party, Christmas wedding, garden wedding, country style, exotic wedding), the wedding cake and many other recipes, and all other details a busy bride needs to keep track of to plan her dream day. Everything a frazzled bride needs to know, even how to fold napkins or how to cook homemade low calorie desserts, is in this wonderful wedding companion.
Publication date: 1997-10-27
Dewey code: 306.094965
List Price: $86.00
Price: $55.77
Review Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) / University Of Chicago Press:For Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most opulent, extravagant, and socially significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies. During days and weeks of festivities, wedding celebrants interact largely through singing, defining and renegotiating as they do so the very structure of their social world and establishing a profound cultural touchstone for Prespa communities around the world. Combining photographs, song texts, and vibrant recordings of the music with her own evocative descriptions, ethnomusicologist Jane C. Sugarman focuses her account of Prespa weddings on notions of gendered identity, demonstrating the capacity of singing to generate and transform relations of power within Prespa society. Engendering Song is an innovative theoretical work, with a scholarly importance extending far beyond southeast European studies. It offers unique and timely contributions to the analysis of music and gender, music in diaspora cultures, and the social constitution of self and subjectivity.
Creator: Donald Clay Johnson
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2004-04-24
Dewey code: 392.54
List Price: $99.95
Price: $59.15
Review Wedding Dress across Cultures (Dress, Body, Culture) / Berg Publishers:Although the Victorian white wedding dominates western bridal dress and large portions of former colonial empires, marriage rituals vary significantly throughout the world. The Japanese, for instance, combine both traditional ceremonies with receptions utilizing western approaches to dress. In the Andes the bride will personally create a multi-layered dress to showcase her weaving skills. Berber brides in Morocco wear binding clothing that covers their faces, a notable contrast to Canadian prairie-province brides whose stylized gowns individualize and enhance body shape. This engaging book examines the evolution and ritual functions of wedding attire within the context of particular cultures. It raises questions as to the relationship between contemporary wedding attire and traditional values. It discusses the changes international migrations have had upon the wedding dress of several ethnic groups. It provides insights into numerous societal relationships to weddings, such as the ban on bridal-produced embroidery in dowries in India, the challenges individual values have to larger societal ones in themed weddings, and the relationship between the return to pre-western attire and identity politics. Exploring these issues, the authors provide unusual insights into the centrality of dress in shaping individual identity as well as its importance in reflecting cultural values and ideals.
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 395
List Price: $49.95
Price: $45.21
Review Jumping The Broom In Style: A Collection of Styles and Information for the entire Wedding Party / AuthorHouse:Jumping the broom in style is an African inspired style guide for couples looking for something different, special, and personalized. A comprehensive collection of unique styles in vibrant colors for both bride and groom, and important helpful information for the wedding party. Besides African, and African American (Afrocentric style), you will find unique African inspired styles influenced by the Caribbean, Asia, Arab/Middle East, Europe, and Hispanic/Latino. Also answers to pressing questions, regarding who wears what, and what to wear to your wedding, plus money saving tips. In addition, perspectives from couples (brides and a groom), about their experiences, in planning their ethnic inspired wedding, and much more!.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-01-29
Dewey code: 392.5
List Price: $104.00
Price: $89.69
Review Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) / Cambridge University Press:While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much recent critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the eighteenth century, the ritual increased in popularity throughout the Victorian period, until by the end of the century it became a familiar accompaniment to the wedding for all but the poorest classes. Using letters and diaries of 61 real-life honeymooning couples, as well as novels from Frankenstein to Middlemarch that feature honeymoon scenarios, Michie explores the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing that, with its emphasis on privacy and displacement, the honeymoon was central to emerging ideals of conjugality and to ideas of the couple as a primary social unit.
Publication date: 2009-01-27
Dewey code: 395
List Price: $52.69
Price: $52.67
Review Today's Bride & Groom for Couples: / Trafford Publishing:Crystal Glass has fused her styling, fashion knowledge, sense of humor and technical skills into an all-inclusive wedding guide for couples; the first of its kind for both men and women alike. “Today's Bride and Groom for Couples” is a beautifully written, two-hundred fifty page guide that reads like a magazine, and contains in depth information for planning, budgeting, and brainstorming general ideas; anything from fantasy weddings in the Caribbean to traditional small town occasions. Crystal Glass has spent the last seven years perfecting her book, interviewing people from different sectors of the wedding industry, including Cake companies, Musicians, and Stylists. Impressively, she also followed couples throughout the entire process, where readers can view the couples' journey together. With the focus being on the couples journey together Crystal gives tips for both gender. From “What Not To Wear” to hairstyling and of course today's Metro sexual Male. It's time for men to take a stand and become one with their brides. Married life doesn't start after the vows. It starts the very first day you become a serious couple and should continue throughout your engagement until you walk down the aisle. Men want to be a part of the wedding planning process so ladies, please include your groom-to-be. [+]Remember he started it all by planning the proposal. After reading this guide, you will have all the knowledge to take control of your own wedding.
Authors
- Carrie Loveless
- Maggie Daniels
Dewey code: 392.5068
List Price: $52.95
Price: $42.94
Review Wedding Planning and Management: Consultancy for Diverse Clients / Butterworth-Heinemann:Wedding Planning and Management provides a comprehensive introduction to the planning and management of weddings. Looking through an event management lens, Maggie Daniels and Carrie Loveless thoroughly explore the foundations, practice, and business of wedding planning. They include over 50 case studies, provide planning checklists, and set standards for best practice. The emphasis on diversity encompasses traditions from cultures around the globe. The book is designed so that consultants, brides, grooms, vendors, scholars, and those simply fascinated by weddings can appreciate and apply the material. Visually stunning with over 150 images captured by award winning photojournalist Rodney Bailey, the full color pages lavishly illustrate concepts and spark the imagination. * The first textbook on wedding consulting, with pedagogical features like introduction of theory, illustration through case studies, worksheets, checklists * Places wedding planning and management into a larger events management context* Provides practical resources and best practices for wedding consulting.
Publication date: 2004-03-05
Dewey code: 392.540973
List Price: $49.95
Price: $37.96
Review Accessorizing The Bride: Vintage Wedding Finery Through The Decades / Schiffer Publishing:Beautifully photographed and exhaustively researched, this romantic journey through fifteen decades of bridal fashion offers a comprehensive, yet intimate, look at wedding costume c. 1860 to the present day. Using original wedding portraits and hundreds of full color photographs, this enchanting book chronicles the changing image of brides, from petticoats and parasols associated with Victorian bustle gowns, to late 1990s bustiers and pashminas, with emphasis on the supporting garments and accessories that add finishing touches to each unique and timeless style. It is a look over our shoulder at those brides of the past, a tribute to the skills of their seamstresses and designers, and a sentimental torch passed to the brides and fashion designers of the future. Accessorizing the Bride is a must have reference for fashion collectors, costumers, vintage clothing dealers, dress designers, and historians. The gowns and accessories within these pages are set in historical context, with notations on design, fabrication, embellishment, provenance (where known), and estimated current value.
Authors
- Cho Phillips
- Sherrie Wilkolaski
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $148.64
Price: $72.21
Review How to Start a Wedding Planning Business / Lulu.com:If you're looking at a career as a wedding planner, look no further. "How to Start a Wedding Planning Business" has educated wedding planners around the world. Whether wedding planning is a hobby or you're running a serious business, this book provides step-by-step instruction on getting a wedding planning business up and running.
Publication date: 1985-01-01
Dewey code: 392.5094
List Price: $77.95
Price: $77.95
Review Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History / Routledge Mental Hea:This eye-opening book covers over a thousand years of Western history and exposes the controls that noble, bourgeois, and propertied peasant families exerted over daughters (and sons) to ensure the continuity of existing social relations. It details the broader economic and social structures within which young women married and the degree to which the institution of the dowry—the marriage bargain—structured courtship and marriage. This provocative volume addresses important issues of women's status and their roles in the family, the family economy, and the economy at large.
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Marriage Celebrations (World Book's Celebrations and Rituals Around the World), Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual (Communication), Consumerism, Romance and the Wedding Experience, Wedding Cakes and Cultural History, Wedding Emotions, Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace, The Form and Function of Ritual Dialogue in the Marriage Traditions of Celtic-language Cultures, Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons, Marriage, Kinship and Power in Northern China (Collected Studies Series, 516), The Wedding Present: Domestic Life Beyond Consumption, Wedding Days (Greek Edition), Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology), Wedding Dress across Cultures (Dress, Body, Culture), Jumping The Broom In Style: A Collection of Styles and Information for the entire Wedding Party, Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture), Today's Bride & Groom for Couples:, Wedding Planning and Management: Consultancy for Diverse Clients, Accessorizing The Bride: Vintage Wedding Finery Through The Decades, How to Start a Wedding Planning Business, Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European HistoryTop headlines: Powerful sedative found in Jacksons home: A law enforcement official says the powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home. 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