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From Duty to Desire
Jane Fishburne Collier
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Description for From Duty to Desire
Paperback. Notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for 'what others might say'. This book traces shifts in the meaning of 'tradition', suggesting that although 'modern' people cannot 'be' traditional, they must have traditions to produce themselves. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JFC; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a modern subjectivity among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of meeting social obligations, the people she interviewed more recently emphasized the need to think for oneself: status concerns in choosing a spouse had apparently been replaced by romantic love, patriarchal authority by partnership marriages, parental demands for obedience by hopes of earning children's affection, ... Read more
In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a modern subjectivity among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of meeting social obligations, the people she interviewed more recently emphasized the need to think for oneself: status concerns in choosing a spouse had apparently been replaced by romantic love, patriarchal authority by partnership marriages, parental demands for obedience by hopes of earning children's affection, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Series
Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History
Condition
New
Weight
428g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691016641
SKU
V9780691016641
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About Jane Fishburne Collier
Jane Fishburne Collier is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Law and Social Change in Zinacantan and Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies.
Reviews for From Duty to Desire
Collier has written a sensitive and subtle description of the development of a 'modern subjectivity' among people born in a small, rural town in southern Spain... From Duty to Desire is well-written, compelling, theoretically sophisticated, didactic, clear, and yet complex. Ethnographically it is generally very fertile.
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