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Getting Married: An Ethnographic and Bibliographic Study

Archive File: LAVC/SRP/1/002

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Getting Married: An Ethnographic and Bibliographic Study

Level: File

Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/002

Creator(s): Neale, Brenda Ann

Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )

Date(s): 1985

Size and medium: x, 652 bound typed leaves; 30 b/w plates. 2 volumes.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409898

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

This Ph.D. thesis is divided into two parts. Part One, The Study of Ritual, describes theoretical foundations, theoretical developments and urban ritual studies. Part Two, Getting Married, includes chapters on the importance of getting married, finding a partner, the engagement, the wedding (core features and social dimensions), the honeymoon and married life, and an overview including three appendices which contain biographical sketches of the informants, information on fieldwork (carried out in Leeds) and documentation and thoughts on further research.

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