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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... husband and wife . Ethnographies report that the norm in many villages is for a husband and wife to avoid each other as much as possible during the day . While most of the urban men I interviewed do not require such strict limitations ...
... husband and wife . Ethnographies report that the norm in many villages is for a husband and wife to avoid each other as much as possible during the day . While most of the urban men I interviewed do not require such strict limitations ...
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... wife and other family members within a joint family . Wherever possible , I asked Gopal to tell me about his own ... husband - wife rela- tionships proved fairly common . While most men believe , like Gopal , that " too many contacts ...
... wife and other family members within a joint family . Wherever possible , I asked Gopal to tell me about his own ... husband - wife rela- tionships proved fairly common . While most men believe , like Gopal , that " too many contacts ...
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... husband and wife would be " unfathomable , " to use the words of one married 47 - year - old . Men are more likely to share ideas about the desirability of joint - family living , women remaining inside the home , and arranged marriages ...
... husband and wife would be " unfathomable , " to use the words of one married 47 - year - old . Men are more likely to share ideas about the desirability of joint - family living , women remaining inside the home , and arranged marriages ...
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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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