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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... relationship between person and society has been of central concern in South Asian studies . While scholars have long recognized that Indians de - emphasize indi- vidual volition , few have focused , as I have , on how Indians see ...
... relationship between person and society has been of central concern in South Asian studies . While scholars have long recognized that Indians de - emphasize indi- vidual volition , few have focused , as I have , on how Indians see ...
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... relationships with his wife and other family members within a joint family . Wherever possible , I asked Gopal to tell me about his own experiences with marriage , with joint - family living , and with a wife and sisters who sometimes ...
... relationships with his wife and other family members within a joint family . Wherever possible , I asked Gopal to tell me about his own experiences with marriage , with joint - family living , and with a wife and sisters who sometimes ...
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... under- standing of the relationship between the individual and society , an understanding which holds that the individual must be everywhere controlled by larger social groups . It is this distinctive 8 CULTURE IN ACTION.
... under- standing of the relationship between the individual and society , an understanding which holds that the individual must be everywhere controlled by larger social groups . It is this distinctive 8 CULTURE IN ACTION.
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... relationship to larger communities . " My focus on common- sense conceptualizations of human motivation is part of these traditions of research . I bring the focus on ethnopsychology to bear on important causal questions in anthropology ...
... relationship to larger communities . " My focus on common- sense conceptualizations of human motivation is part of these traditions of research . I bring the focus on ethnopsychology to bear on important causal questions in anthropology ...
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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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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