Keynote Remarks on Marriage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11223656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R E Prell (0000-0002-2138-0802, corresponding author), Riv-Ellen Prell |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 55-57 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1478081 |
| OpenAlex | W2329196749 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Why do we dance at weddings? What are we marking and celebrating? Scholars of the family and society have abandoned their efforts to discover for marriage a universal definition which was once thought of as helpful for answering these questions. The search for the lowest common denominator of marriage in all cultures that would reveal the universally shared features of the institution offers little insight into this ubiquitous and complex human relationship (Gough, 1959). Love, economy, alliance, and even oppression have all been abandoned as possible common threads weaving together two people in a socially sanctioned union. We must discover alternative questions to ask in order to understand what marriage reveals about a society and how it functions for the group and the individuals
Aesthetics · Alliance · Art · Dance · Framing (construction) · Honour · Institution · Literature · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Rite · Social science · Sociology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |