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From Duty to Desire - Remaking Families in a Spanish Village (Paperback, New)
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From Duty to Desire - Remaking Families in a Spanish Village (Paperback, New)
Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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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 had met in the sixties had
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oneself; status concerns in choosing a spouse had apparently been
replaced by romantic love, patriarchal authority by partnership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, mourners' respect for the dead by personal
expressions of grief. In each of these areas the author detected a
modern concern for "producing oneself", which merged with changes
in how villagers experienced social inequality. Collier notes that
when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers
protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating
concern for "what others might say". Once villagers began
participating in the national job market, where individual
achievement appeared to determine a worker's income, they focused
on realizing their inner abilities and productive capacities.
Sensitivity to one's feelings, thoughts, and aptitudes, along with
"rational" assessments of the costs and benefits entailed in
"choosing" how to use them, testified to a person's unceasing
efforts to realize inner potentials. The author also traces shifts
in the meaning of "tradition", suggesting that although "modern"
people cannot "be" traditional, they must have traditions in order
to produce themselves. Jane Fishburne Collier is professor of
Anthropology at Stanford University.
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