Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, IndiaState University of New York Press, 1995 M07 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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... chapter 5 . Bharat Krishnamurthy assisted me in preparing the interview schedule and in translating scenes from ... chapters 3 and 7 were originally published in Contributions to Indian Sociology , vol . 26 , no . 2. Copyright © Insti ...
... chapter 5 . Bharat Krishnamurthy assisted me in preparing the interview schedule and in translating scenes from ... chapters 3 and 7 were originally published in Contributions to Indian Sociology , vol . 26 , no . 2. Copyright © Insti ...
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... chapter 3 , most men see joint - family living as providing emotional satisfaction and eco- nomic security . The men I interviewed range from 20 to 75 years of age , " and rep- resent various positions in joint and nuclear families . I ...
... chapter 3 , most men see joint - family living as providing emotional satisfaction and eco- nomic security . The men I interviewed range from 20 to 75 years of age , " and rep- resent various positions in joint and nuclear families . I ...
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... chapter 7 ) . Even " collective action , " she says , is " understood to rest on the choices of individual actors . " Most of the Hindu men I interviewed understand individual actions not as the result of individual choices but as a ...
... chapter 7 ) . Even " collective action , " she says , is " understood to rest on the choices of individual actors . " Most of the Hindu men I interviewed understand individual actions not as the result of individual choices but as a ...
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... chapter 6 , I examine women's responses to the gender culture that oppresses them by considering ethnographies done by female anthropologists and the journalism of Indian feminists . Since I did not interview women in the community I ...
... chapter 6 , I examine women's responses to the gender culture that oppresses them by considering ethnographies done by female anthropologists and the journalism of Indian feminists . Since I did not interview women in the community I ...
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... chapter 3 ) . OUTLINE In the next chapter I suggest how cultural ideas may be a tool of the powerful by examining how the men I interviewed construct gender culture to bolster male dominance . In chapter 3 , I explore men's " first ...
... chapter 3 ) . OUTLINE In the next chapter I suggest how cultural ideas may be a tool of the powerful by examining how the men I interviewed construct gender culture to bolster male dominance . In chapter 3 , I explore men's " first ...
Contents
True Believers Cowed Conformers | 105 |
Family Structure Ethnopsychology | 155 |
Fieldwork in Urban India | 175 |
Notes | 181 |
Bibliography | 199 |
Index | 221 |
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