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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Culture in Action
• Subtitle: Family Life, Emotion and Male Dominance in Banaras, India
• Author: Steve Derne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780791424254
• ID: 04699138
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 510 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 156 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 1995

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