Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual

ISBN-13: 9780805811421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 326 str.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

Opis

Using intercultural weddings as its focus, this volume examines what occurs when the signs and codes of different cultures come into contact and influence one another. It is aimed at scholars and advanced level students of interpersonal, non-verbal, intercultural communication and language.

Recenzje

"Leeds-Hurwitz...brings together studies in semiotics, language and social interaction, intercultural communication, ritual, identity, and material culture with a method of ethnography of communication and a theory of social constructionism...Of interest to library collections in semantics, semiotics, communication (particularly intercultural communication), and social interaction in general. For specialists, there are theoretical and methodological appendixes, which might encourage other scholars to undertake such studies."
—CHOICE

Wedding as Text a wonderfully rich and elegant book that is straightforward in its presentation....rarely does a report of academic scholarship work so well on so many levels. It offers a way of understanding life as something made through and lived in communication. In this way, although fairly thin in pages, it is a very weighty piece of work. It deserves a wide reading."

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Community. Ritual. Identity. Meaning. Conclusion. Theoretical Appendix. Methodological Appendix.

O autorze

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz