Hybridity and distinctions in Japanese contemporary commercial weddings

Significance of Prenuptial Rituals as Ethnic Definitional Ceremonies among Immigrants

“…Sharaby (2006) investigated gender aspects in the henna rituals of Yemenite immigrants in Israel. Goldstein-Gidoni (2001) researched commercialization processes in weddings in Japan in the 1990s and traditional Japanese and modern Western images that are disseminated by manufacturers in the weddings industry in order to serve their own interests. Another example is Prashizky's (2014) study on the manner in which alternative marriage rituals comprise an alternative to the orthodox ritual and undermine it.…”

Geschlechter- und Beziehungsnormen im Kontext professioneller Hochzeitsplanung am Beispiel Österreichs

“…des Familienverbandes, sondern fällt zunehmend unter die Begehrlichkeiten und Einfl ussnahmen eines auf die Verheiratung ausgerichteten Waren-und Dienstleistungsmarktes (Ingraham 1999;Otnes/Pleck 2003;Freeman 2002;Goldstein-Gidoni 2001). Auch im deutschsprachigen Raum gibt es seit rund 20 Jahren Hochzeitsmessen als Sammelpunkte des Hochzeitsmarktes und seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre die ersten professio nellen Hoch- (Mauss 1999;Weber-Kellermann 1985;Maj 1985 …”

Interrogating the production of urban space in China and Vietnam under market socialism

“…Another perspective is offered by Goldstein-Godoni (2001), who on the basis of her work in Japan, suggests that the process of globalisation is best analysed by studying the interaction between indigenous and outside processes as an ongoing interplay of cultural constructs of what is, in her studies, described as difference between Japanese and Western construction of what is considered Japanese or Western. Golstein-Godoni sees this process of as a 'cultural production of Western as made in Japan'.…”