Big Fat Assyrian/Syriac Weddings: Rituals and Marriage Traditions among Middle Eastern Christians in SwedenJournal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/CNG83UDJ/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MartaWoźniak-BobińskaBig Fat Assyrian/Syriac Weddings: Rituals and Marriage Traditions among Middle Eastern Christians in Swedenhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/CNG83UDJhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/CNG83UDJhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/CNG83UDJJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies20171-17Weddings can be seen as ‘rites of passage’ and also as ‘symbolic struggles’ since their glamour appears to be a new indicator of status for many families, especially migrant ones. A mixture of traditional as well as reinvented wedding customs serves a community searching for ethnic identity markers that can help it to embrace all of its descendants. This article presents a case study of how Assyrian/Syriac wedding rituals and marriage traditions that are being performed and transformed in the migratory context of Sweden over the last 50 years. Among the Middle Eastern Christians, who have been emigrating from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq since the 1960s, and which today numbers 120,000 individuals, marriage is a very serious business – a permanent union between spouses and their respective families. The purpose of the article is to analyse Assyrian/Syriac wedding rituals and to discuss how they have shaped the modern Assyrian/Syriac identity. It also explores how local marriages connect and reconnect migrants of this ethno-religious group(s) and how it differentiates them from their peers in the surrounding Swedish society – religiously, socially and even aesthetically.
Woźniak-Bobińska, Marta. “Big Fat Assyrian/Syriac Weddings: Rituals and Marriage Traditions among Middle Eastern Christians in Sweden.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017, 1–17.
Marta Woźniak-Bobińska, Big Fat Assyrian/Syriac Weddings: Rituals and Marriage Traditions among Middle Eastern Christians in Sweden,Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017, 1–17.AssyriansDiasporaEuropeJacobitesNestoriansXIX-XXI CEXX CEXXI CEmarriagesociology