Original scientific paper
''THEY HAVE ENTERED THEIR FUTURE LIFE...'' - The Wedding Ritual and Cultural Change in Vinogorje
Olga Supek-Zupan
; institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The wedding, one of the most public of family rituals in Vinogorje, has been and has remained the most complex of rituals. If rituals in general are ''dense'' and ''concentrated'' aspects of a life style, full of meaning, yet representative of culture, then it is possible to discern in them the same motivations, concerns, conflicts and values which otherwise move the people of Vinogorje. The meaning of their actions — in this case the practical and symbolic manipulation of kin — can only be understood if related to a wider social context and cultural history. This article attempts to explain the change in symbolic behavior, that is, changes in the patterned action of the wedding ritual, by relating them to some major processes in Vinogorje history. These processes include the shift from corporate family to nuclear and from partilocality to neolocality, the introduction of dowry, and the growing influence of urban values.
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48394
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Publication date:
20.8.1983.
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