TY - BOOK AU - Lankauskas,Gediminas TI - The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania SN - 9781442644175 AV - GT2756.5 .L36 2015eb U1 - 392.5094793 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Lithuanians KW - Social life and customs KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Lithuania KW - Marriage customs and rites KW - Weddings KW - HISTORY / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442699359 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442699359 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442699359/original ER -