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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... recognized that Indians de - emphasize indi- vidual volition , few have focused , as I have , on how Indians see action as shaped by their social group ( Roland 1988 ; Kakar [ 1978 ] 1981 ) . Fewer still have recognized that Indians are ...
... recognized that Indians de - emphasize indi- vidual volition , few have focused , as I have , on how Indians see action as shaped by their social group ( Roland 1988 ; Kakar [ 1978 ] 1981 ) . Fewer still have recognized that Indians are ...
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... recognizing that cultural elements are not shared , but are contested and negotiated by individuals and social ... recognizing both human agency and cultural constraint is one that is increasingly occupying the attention of social ...
... recognizing that cultural elements are not shared , but are contested and negotiated by individuals and social ... recognizing both human agency and cultural constraint is one that is increasingly occupying the attention of social ...
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... recognized a largely shared vocabulary centering on a concern with honor . Gopal Mishra hints at this concern with ... recognize the importance of this collectivist framework for understanding action was through my own interac- tions ...
... recognized a largely shared vocabulary centering on a concern with honor . Gopal Mishra hints at this concern with ... recognize the importance of this collectivist framework for understanding action was through my own interac- tions ...
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... recognizes , these perceptual controls are not " a private affair . " Instead , the processes of perception by which ... recognize informal commonsense under- standings of self and human motivation as social products . When indi- viduals ...
... recognizes , these perceptual controls are not " a private affair . " Instead , the processes of perception by which ... recognize informal commonsense under- standings of self and human motivation as social products . When indi- viduals ...
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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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