Culture in action : family life, emotion, and male dominance in Banaras, India
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
Print Book, English, ©1995
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1995
xiii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
9780791424254, 9780791424261, 0791424251, 079142426X
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Studying gender culture in the North Indian city : beyond the image of culture as shared and constraining
Making gender culture : men talk about controlling women
The collectivist framework for understanding action : Hindu men's focus on social pressures
Culture and psyche : emotions, conscience, and self-conceptions
Second languages and individual desires
True believers, cowed conformers, innovative mimetists, and unapologetic rebels : women and men respond to the threat of dishonor
Culture work and strategies of action: women and men respond to the threat of dishonor
Culture work and strategies of action : how Hindu men buck social pressure
Who rejects social roles? : innovators and cultural dopes
Family structure, ethnopsychology, and emotion culture : how do they make each other up?
Conclusion
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