Beyond Institutional and Impulsive Conceptions of Self: Family Structure and the Socially Anchored Real Self

Derné, Steve

doi:10.1525/eth.1992.20.3.02a00010

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“…With increased financial resources at their disposal, the assumption is that they will have more mastery of their situation. However, as noted before, this can be negated by norms of sharing familial wealth in some minoritised contexts (Derne 1992). In addition, there is some evidence that rising costs have meant that higher education is seen as a risk, especially for low income students.…”

Section: Age and Financial Independencementioning

confidence: 93%

“…For instance, in some parts of India, girls and boys as young as 12 or 14 or younger are considered old enough to marry. However, as argued by psychoanalysts like Sudhir Kakar (1990) and Steve Derne (1992), South Asian families, unlike those in the West, do not believe that separation from the parental home and freedom from parental control is a sign of maturity; this is, indeed, seen as undesirable. This can extend to different aspects of life, including marriage, residence, education and finance.…”

Section: Age and Maturitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Protecting Victims of Forced Marriage: Is Age a Protective Factor?

Gangoli

Chantler²

2009

Fem Leg Stud

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This paper explores the UK's legal interventions in the arena of forced marriage. Three key initiatives have been considered in the last 5 years: creating a specific crime of forced marriage; civil rather than criminal protection for victims; and an increase in the age of entry for non-EU spouses, with a corresponding increase in age for sponsoring such spouses. Our key focus is on the last of these interventions and we draw upon a research study conducted in the UK in 2006/2007 exploring the risks and benefits associated with increasing the age of sponsorship and entry. The UK government's argument is that the increased maturity which comes from being older acts as a protective factor, thus making it easier to resist forced marriage. This view of maturity gains its saliency from developmental psychology. Here, we critically analyse the construct of age and the link between age and ability to resist forced marriage. We illustrate through the accounts of victims of forced marriage and of stakeholders the difficulties of adopting age as a central organising feature of protection for potential victims of forced marriage.

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Section: Age and Financial Independencementioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Age and Maturitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Protecting Victims of Forced Marriage: Is Age a Protective Factor?

Gangoli

Chantler²

2009

Fem Leg Stud

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“…Whatever logic they may exhibit, it appears tuned to somatic modes of communication, and to distant from the standards of rationality as enuncilocal theories of infant communication, as well as to ated by two thousand years of formal Western acknowledging that infants, like adults, are part of a thought. With such an intellectually problematic procybernetic system in which identity is defined as file, any inclination toward serious anthropological constitutive of society (Derné 1992; Shweder and study of such creatures is understandably low (Peters Bourne 1984.…”

Section: Alma Gottlieb University Of Illinois At Urbana-champaignmentioning

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Where Have All The Babies Gone?: Toward an Anthropology of Infants (and Their Caretakers)

Gottlieb¹

2000

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In much anthropological literature infants are frequently neglected as outside the scope of both the concept of culture and disciplinary methods. This article proposes six reasons for this exclusion of infants from anthropological discussse include the fieldworker's own memories and parental status, the problematic question of agency in infants and their presumed dependence on others, their routine attachment to women, their seeming inability to communicate, their inconvenient propensity to leak from a variety of orifices, and their apparently low quotient of rationality. Yet investigation of how infants are conceived of beyond the industrialized West can lead us to envision them far differently from how they are conceived in the West (including by anthropologists). Confronting such comparative data suggests the desirability of considering infants as both relevant and beneficial to the anthropological endeavor.

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“…49 Marriot's Indian ethno-sociology has rightly been criticized for its abstraction and bias towards classical Hindu texts. 50 However, the case of the boatman can be viewed as affirming his claims on the everyday level. Boatmen inhabit a world where they are productively involved with polluting substances as well as consuming them, to the extent that one is tempted to draw a link aligning the two: a homology which is articulated through the logic of practice.…”

Section: The Ghostly Nature Of Alcoholmentioning

confidence: 97%

The intoxicated poor: alcohol, morality and power among the boatmen of Banaras

Doron

2010

South Asian History and Culture

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Beyond Institutional and Impulsive Conceptions of Self: Family Structure and the Socially Anchored Real Self

Cited by 40 publications

References 16 publications

Protecting Victims of Forced Marriage: Is Age a Protective Factor?

Protecting Victims of Forced Marriage: Is Age a Protective Factor?

Where Have All The Babies Gone?: Toward an Anthropology of Infants (and Their Caretakers)

The intoxicated poor: alcohol, morality and power among the boatmen of Banaras

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