MARRIAGE AND WEDDING AMONG ITALIANS AT KOPAR

Abstract

Being in the past fare more numerous against the surrounding Slovene population, Italians at Kopar represent nowdays only 1,7 percent of the total population in this Slovenian town. In entering the marriage, they are marked by ethnical heterogamy – three quarters of marriages anterem between 1950-1981 are ethnically mixed. Analysing the wedding ritual, Author notices visible transformations, the change of function and even ellimination of certain ritual ellements.