{"id":45113,"date":"2010-09-08T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/08\/whats-a-wedding-without-a-tractor-explains-an-armenian-ethnographer\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T04:07:00","slug":"whats-a-wedding-without-a-tractor-explains-an-armenian-ethnographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/08\/whats-a-wedding-without-a-tractor-explains-an-armenian-ethnographer.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s a Wedding Without a Tractor? Explains an Armenian Ethnographer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s weddings are only a meager part of the range of Armenian traditions, said ethnographer Rafayel Nahapetyan at a press conference today, adding that many traditions have been upheld in Armenia’s villages. Fortunately<\/span> they’re preserved, the tradition-loving ethnographer made a point of saying.<\/p>\n

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“Recently, I was the best man at a wedding in Idjevan, where while getting the bride from her paternal [family] home, the bride’s brothers had blocked the road with tractors and cars and were asking for money. This is a centuries-old Armenian wedding tradition, which is very beautiful. And why shouldn’t this tradition be followed? It strengthens the friendship between the in-laws,” said Nahapetyan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“A dowry’s also quite right; it’s quite consistent with our reality: with it, a father economically improves her daughter’s situation,” he said, informing journalists that the dowry was formed when society moved to private property ownership.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“But now, right away, on the day of the wedding, they give the girl a house key. But shouldn’t a bride come, enter into her husband’s hearth [home], learn to love her husband’s parents as her own. My daughters-in-law, until they didn’t have 2 children in my home, I didn’t permit them to live separately,” explained Nahapetyan proudly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He also added that Armenian historians bypassed the subject of wedding ceremonies in Armenian historiography; they didn’t give the subject significance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Only to make comparisons with the traditions of other countries were many unconnected records made, with which we are informed that Armenian historians judge love-based marriages and divorces, considering them not in line with Christian morals,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethnographer Rafayel Nahapetyan today…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[15176,15171,15174,15172,15175,15173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}