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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... parents live under one roof and share a common hearth with their sons , daughters - in - law , and grandchildren . Second , most Hindu men prefer arranged marriages . Parents almost always arrange the marriages of their sons and ...
... parents live under one roof and share a common hearth with their sons , daughters - in - law , and grandchildren . Second , most Hindu men prefer arranged marriages . Parents almost always arrange the marriages of their sons and ...
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... parents ' households , and reject customary limitations on interac- tions with their wives . But I suggest that the culturally constructed understandings of motivation that I focus on nevertheless constrain even individuals who act ...
... parents ' households , and reject customary limitations on interac- tions with their wives . But I suggest that the culturally constructed understandings of motivation that I focus on nevertheless constrain even individuals who act ...
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... parents as junior members of a joint family . FINDING VARIATION Interviews with 49 men of different ages and living in different situa- tions in joint and nuclear families reveal variations in their ideas about women , families , and ...
... parents as junior members of a joint family . FINDING VARIATION Interviews with 49 men of different ages and living in different situa- tions in joint and nuclear families reveal variations in their ideas about women , families , and ...
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... parents ' house for fighting with his wife . But I gradually learned that this sort of gossip reflects a particular under- standing of the relationship between the individual and society , an understanding which holds that the ...
... parents ' house for fighting with his wife . But I gradually learned that this sort of gossip reflects a particular under- standing of the relationship between the individual and society , an understanding which holds that the ...
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... parents of the bride and groom , but they also believe that among certain groups in India love marriages are common . They know that in the United States , marriages are not arranged by the parents of the bride and groom . While they ...
... parents of the bride and groom , but they also believe that among certain groups in India love marriages are common . They know that in the United States , marriages are not arranged by the parents of the bride and groom . While they ...
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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Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India Steve Derne No preview available - 1995 |
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