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The land of weddings and rain : nation and modernity in post-socialist Lithuania
In The Land of Weddings and Rain, Gediminas Lankauskas examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding -- religious and civil ceremonies, \"traditional\" imagery and practices, and the conspicuous consumption of domestic and imported goods -- in the context of the Western-style modernization of post-socialist Lithuania. Studying the tensions between \"tradition\" and \"modernity\" that surround this important ritual event, Lankauskas highlights the ways in which nationalism serves to negotiate the impact of modernity in the aftermath of state socialism's collapse. His analysis also shows the importance of consumption and commodification to Lithuania's ongoing \"Westernization.\" Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Land of Weddings and Rain is a fascinating account of the tensions -- between national and transnational, East and West, and old and new -- that shape life in post-socialist Eastern Europe. -- Provided by publisher.
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In the New City
It was a pretty picture as Tsar Nicholas I stood in the middle of a glittering retinue. His tall figure, bursting with health, towered over his surroundings. His military parade uniform, the firm, close fitting dress coat with its bright crimson cloth edging and sleeves, his chest decorated with the numerous stars of medals, his massive epaulettes, the blue, broad sash slung across his breast, his sword-knot with the sword on his left side, the three-cornered hat sitting crosswise on his head, its heavy, white plume of feathers—all this lent his soldierly form an extraordinary appearance. His face, with
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Gediminas Lankauskas, The land of weddings and rain: nation and modernity in post-socialist Lithuania
The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania (Anthropological Horizons), by Gediminas Lankauskas. University of Toronto Press,2015, 352pp., ISBN: 978-1442612563. Reprinted by permission of Routledge, Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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