Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, IndiaSUNY Press, 1995 M01 1 - 232 pages In Culture in Action Derne explores the interconnections between male dominance, joint-family living, Indian emotional life, and a cultural focus on group pressures. Derne emphasizes the Hindu focus on the social group, but shows that men often distance themselves from group culture by marrying for love, separating from their parents, or embracing closeness with their wives. Derne's suggestion that Indian men's cultural focus on the group limits men's and women's strategies for breaking cultural norms offers a new approach to understanding how culture constrains. He shows how the child-rearing practices and emotional tensions associated with joint-family living shape Indians' group emphasis. This approach suggests that the Hindu focus on the group is intimately connected with male dominance. |
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Contents
Until recently the dominant perspective in the social sciences | 2 |
One reason that 35yearold RP Mishra | 16 |
Rajesh Yadav 27 enjoys wearing stylish Westernized clothes | 38 |
Several men who consent enthusiastically to having their marriages | 68 |
Nandu Gupta a 35yearold high | 84 |
While bringing him tea Lakshmi Mishra jokes with her | 106 |
While the threat of dishonor is an important constraint | 122 |
In this chapter I explore the uneven hold of | 142 |
So far I have emphasized how practices associated with | 156 |
Catherine Lutz 1988 urges a focus on ethnopsychology | 168 |
NOTES | 181 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 199 |
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