<P>In an age of increasingly fragmented migration, consumption, and globalisation, how do diasporic individuals navigate their ethnic identities? <I>Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity</I> investigates the ways that Chinese Singaporeans shape their Chineseness through wedding rituals and artefacts. Proposing a framework of ethnic identity as a journey, this book will </P><UL><P><LI>Interrogate the processes underlying diasporic ethnicity-making through weddings.</LI><P></P><P><LI>Offer new concepts of transdiasporic space, ethnic tastes, and aesthetic dissonance. </LI><P></P><P><LI>Explore the intersections between commercialism, ethnicity, and socio-economic divides.</LI><P></P><P><LI>Map the micro-social ramifications of ethnic and racial policy in Singapore.</LI></UL><P>As a former professional wedding photographer, Terence Heng brings a sociological lens to the scripted and spontaneous arena of social interactions that is the wedding day. By combining ethnographic