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Author Lankauskas, Gediminas, author

Title The land of weddings and rain : nation and modernity in post-socialist Lithuania / Gediminas Lankauskas
Published Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Anthropological horizons ; 16
Anthropological horizons ; 16.
Contents Introduction -- Soviet propaganda and nationalist reappropriation -- Exigencies of tradition -- Catholic enchantment and discontent -- Time-spaces of a reordered city -- "Until you grope the ground": food, drink, and modern things -- Post-socialist scriptum
Summary Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Land of Weddings and Rain examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding in post-socialist Lithuania
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Marriage customs and rites -- Lithuania
Weddings -- Lithuania
Man-woman relationships -- Lithuania
Lithuanians -- Social life and customs
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Lithuanians -- Social life and customs
Man-woman relationships
Marriage customs and rites
Weddings
Lithuania
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442699359
1442699353