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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Page v
... Focus on Social Pressures 37 4. Culture and Psyche : Emotions , Conscience , and Self - Conceptions 5. Second Languages and Individual Desires 67 83 6. True Believers , Cowed Conformers , Innovative Mimetists , and Unapologetic Rebels ...
... Focus on Social Pressures 37 4. Culture and Psyche : Emotions , Conscience , and Self - Conceptions 5. Second Languages and Individual Desires 67 83 6. True Believers , Cowed Conformers , Innovative Mimetists , and Unapologetic Rebels ...
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... focus on commonsense understandings of human motivation . By highlighting Hindu men's commonsense under- standing that ... focuses on how commonsense understandings constrain individuals and shape social life , by empha- sizing three ...
... focus on commonsense understandings of human motivation . By highlighting Hindu men's commonsense under- standing that ... focuses on how commonsense understandings constrain individuals and shape social life , by empha- sizing three ...
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... focus on culture work . A study of culture work considers how individ- uals manipulate cultural components to attribute ... focuses on the links between ethnopsychological understandings and other parts of social life by pursuing the ...
... focus on culture work . A study of culture work considers how individ- uals manipulate cultural components to attribute ... focuses on the links between ethnopsychological understandings and other parts of social life by pursuing the ...
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... focus on how Indians see individuals as guided by hierarchy ( Dumont [ 1966 ] 1980 ) , the abstract laws of dharma ( Shweder 1991 ) or the diverse physical substances they encounter ( Mar- riott 1989 ; Daniel 1984 ) , I emphasize that ...
... focus on how Indians see individuals as guided by hierarchy ( Dumont [ 1966 ] 1980 ) , the abstract laws of dharma ( Shweder 1991 ) or the diverse physical substances they encounter ( Mar- riott 1989 ; Daniel 1984 ) , I emphasize that ...
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... focus on nevertheless constrain even individuals who act unconventionally . Such frameworks for under- standing action constrain individuals , and shape psyche and social life . I went to India in November 1986 to uncover and analyze ...
... focus on nevertheless constrain even individuals who act unconventionally . Such frameworks for under- standing action constrain individuals , and shape psyche and social life . I went to India in November 1986 to uncover and analyze ...
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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