The Land of Weddings and Rain : : Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania / / Gediminas Lankauskas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Lankauskas, Gediminas,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Map --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Soviet Propaganda and Nationalist Reappropriation --; Chapter Two. Exigencies of Tradition --; Chapter Three. Catholic Enchantment and Discontent --; Chapter Four. Time-Spaces of a Reordered City --; Chapter Five. "Until You Grope the Ground": Food, Drink, and Modern Things --; Post-Socialist Scriptum --; Glossary of Frequently Cited Words and Phrases --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442699359; 9783110606812
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442699359
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gediminas Lankauskas.

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.