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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... JOINT FAMILIES Most of the men I interviewed live in joint families . Eighty percent live in households with more than one married couple and about half live in households with three or more married couples . While joint - family liv ...
... JOINT FAMILIES Most of the men I interviewed live in joint families . Eighty percent live in households with more than one married couple and about half live in households with three or more married couples . While joint - family liv ...
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... family situations and about arranged marriages . We some- times discussed the changing status of women , which is ... joint - family living , arranged mar- riages , interactions with family members inside the home , and issues concerning ...
... family situations and about arranged marriages . We some- times discussed the changing status of women , which is ... joint - family living , arranged mar- riages , interactions with family members inside the home , and issues concerning ...
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... joint - family living , and about his attitude toward arranged marriages and love marriages . He told me what he thought about women going outside the home , and about his own relationships with his wife and other family members within a ...
... joint - family living , and about his attitude toward arranged marriages and love marriages . He told me what he thought about women going outside the home , and about his own relationships with his wife and other family members within a ...
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... joint - family living , women remaining inside the home , and arranged marriages . Gopal , for instance , takes the stance that a love marriage could never succeed " because everyone will see it as a love marriage . " Yet , an ...
... joint - family living , women remaining inside the home , and arranged marriages . Gopal , for instance , takes the stance that a love marriage could never succeed " because everyone will see it as a love marriage . " Yet , an ...
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Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India Steve Derne. the emphasis on social guidance is often ... joint - family living , the collectivist framework for understanding action , and men's emotion culture mutu- ally ...
Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India Steve Derne. the emphasis on social guidance is often ... joint - family living , the collectivist framework for understanding action , and men's emotion culture mutu- ally ...
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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