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 vii
... cial action , Hindu men fundamentally distrust any individual action unrestrained by caste and family . A focus on how social frameworks for understanding action constrain individuals is an important contri- bution vii Preface.
... cial action , Hindu men fundamentally distrust any individual action unrestrained by caste and family . A focus on how social frameworks for understanding action constrain individuals is an important contri- bution vii Preface.
Page viii
... important contri- bution of this book . Individuals use cultural ideas to invest actions with meaning . Because meaning does not inhere in cultural symbols themselves , I focus on culture work . A study of culture work considers how ...
... important contri- bution of this book . Individuals use cultural ideas to invest actions with meaning . Because meaning does not inhere in cultural symbols themselves , I focus on culture work . A study of culture work considers how ...
Page xi
... important ways . Joseph Alter , Purnima Bose , Cezary Galewicz , Jan Heiderer , Tony Heiderer , Nancy Kozor - Niggli , Philip Lutgendorf , Thomas Niggli , Reiko Ohnuma , Joseph Schaller , Karen Stetson , and Robert Thomas Wilson , among ...
... important ways . Joseph Alter , Purnima Bose , Cezary Galewicz , Jan Heiderer , Tony Heiderer , Nancy Kozor - Niggli , Philip Lutgendorf , Thomas Niggli , Reiko Ohnuma , Joseph Schaller , Karen Stetson , and Robert Thomas Wilson , among ...
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... analyze how men share cul- tural ideas about gender , why they embrace these ideas , and how they use their common culture to pursue diverse goals . THE PLACE Banaras2 is an important pilgrimage city of about 2 Making Gender Culture:
... analyze how men share cul- tural ideas about gender , why they embrace these ideas , and how they use their common culture to pursue diverse goals . THE PLACE Banaras2 is an important pilgrimage city of about 2 Making Gender Culture:
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... important pilgrimage city of about one million people ( Government of India 1985 : 109 ) . So sacred to Hindus that it is visited by millions of pilgrims each year ( Eck 1983 ) , Banaras bustles with business on its narrow streets and ...
... important pilgrimage city of about one million people ( Government of India 1985 : 109 ) . So sacred to Hindus that it is visited by millions of pilgrims each year ( Eck 1983 ) , Banaras bustles with business on its narrow streets and ...
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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American Anand Singh argues arranged marriages Banaras Bellah bhābhi Brāhmaṇ bride brothers Catherine Lutz chapter collectivist framework commonsense understandings consequences of dishonor constrain Deepak describe Dileep dominant elders emotion culture emphasize ethnopsychology family's honor father feel focus focuses framework for understanding gender culture girl Gopal guided by social hero heroine Hindi film Hindu men's honor izzat household husband and wife important Indian individual desires instance interactions interviewed joint family joint-family living Kakar Krishna Krishna Das Kumar Kurtz Liddle and Joshi limit love marriages love prem Luschinsky 1962 Maine Pyar Kiya marry for love Mishra says mother Nandu North India one's parents Phoolchand Mishra Raja Rajendra Gupta Rajesh Yadav Rāmāyaṇa Ramesh Mishra recognize reject relationship restrictions riage Richard Shweder Roland second languages separate Sharma Shweder social fear social group social pressures society strategies of action Sunil Gupta Swidler talk tradition understanding action unmarried Vinod Gupta wives woman women young