An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, "Marriage and Modernity" challenges assumptions that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent specific changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, 'ancient' social institution, with arranged marriages as the apotheosis of an 'Indian' tradition. She meticulously documents the ways that these newly embraced 'traditions' - the extended family and arranged marriage - entered into competition and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple, with both models participating promiscuously in the new 'marketplace' for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles. Majumdar argues that together the two developments - the kinship structures newly asserted as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market - constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in India. Majumdar examines three broad developments related to the modernity of arranged marriage: the growth of a marriage market, concomitant debates about consumption and vulgarity in the conduct of weddings, and the legal regulation of family property and marriages. Drawing on matrimonial advertisements, wedding invitations, poems, photographs, legal debates, and a vast periodical literature, she shows that modernization of families does not necessarily imply a transition from extended kinship to nuclear family structures, or from matrimonial agreements negotiated between families to marriage contracts between individuals. "Colonial Bengali?? tells a very different story.
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我一直對社會變遷及其對個人生活的影響充滿好奇,所以當我在書店的架子上看到《婚姻與現代性》這本書時,立刻被它吸引住瞭。書名本身就暗示著一種深刻的探索,它似乎在試圖解開現代社會中婚姻形式的演變與我們所處的時代之間的復雜聯係。我腦海中閃過無數的畫麵:從父母輩的包辦婚姻,到我們這一代追求的自由戀愛,再到如今多元化的伴侶關係,婚姻似乎正在經曆一場前所未有的轉型。這本書會不會深入剖析導緻這些變化的社會、經濟、文化和技術因素?我特彆好奇作者會如何看待科技進步,比如社交媒體和在綫約會平颱,它們對我們建立和維持親密關係産生瞭怎樣的影響?它們是拉近瞭人與人之間的距離,還是帶來瞭新的隔閡和不確定性?我期待這本書能提供一些令人耳目一新的視角,或許能幫助我更好地理解自己以及身邊人所經曆的感情挑戰和選擇。這本書會不會引用曆史案例,展現不同時代婚姻觀念的對比?我希望它不僅僅是理論的探討,還能通過生動的例子,讓我們感受到婚姻在曆史長河中的流變,以及它所承載的文化和情感意義。
评分我之所以對《婚姻與現代性》這本書感到好奇,是因為我一直認為,社會發展不僅僅是經濟和科技的進步,更重要的是它如何重塑瞭我們最基本的生活方式和人際關係。婚姻,作為一種古老的社會製度,在現代化的浪潮中,究竟經曆瞭怎樣的變形和重構?這本書會不會深入探討,全球化和文化交流的影響,是否帶來瞭更多元化的婚姻觀念,又是否使得原本穩固的傳統婚姻模式變得更加邊緣化?我特彆想知道,作者是如何解讀“個人選擇”在現代婚姻中所扮演的角色。當婚姻不再是社會壓力下的必然選擇,而是更多地基於個體的愛情和情感需求時,我們又該如何麵對隨之而來的不確定性和責任?我期待這本書能夠提供一種曆史的縱深感,讓我們看到婚姻製度的演變並非一蹴而就,而是與社會整體的現代化進程緊密相連,並且,它會給當代的我們帶來一些關於如何理解和實踐婚姻的啓示。
评分最近我一直在思考,在我們這個信息爆炸、節奏飛快的時代,親密關係似乎變得越來越“脆弱”瞭。我們有無數種方式去認識新的人,卻又似乎越來越難以建立起深刻而持久的連接。《婚姻與現代性》這個書名,立刻抓住瞭我內心的這種迷思。我好奇,這本書會不會去探討,現代社會中,性彆角色的變化對婚姻結構産生瞭怎樣的衝擊?當女性在經濟和社會地位上獲得更多獨立性,傳統的男主外女主內的模式是否已經不再適用?這又如何在伴侶關係中引發新的權力動態和期待?我非常想知道,作者是如何看待“承諾”在現代婚姻中的地位的。在選擇如此之多的情況下,人們是否還會像過去那樣,將婚姻視為一種長期的、不可動搖的契約?還是說,婚姻正在演變成一種更加靈活、更注重當下體驗的關係?這本書會不會提供一些關於如何在這種不確定性中,重新尋找婚姻穩定性和幸福感的建議?我期待它能提供一種深刻的洞察,幫助我理解我們這一代人在愛情和婚姻中所麵臨的獨特睏境。
评分總的來說,我對《婚姻與現代性》這本書充滿瞭期待,主要是源於它觸及瞭我內心深處對現代社會中人際關係,尤其是婚姻情感狀態的種種疑問。我們生活在一個充斥著各種媒介和信息的世界裏,從電影、電視劇到社交網絡,都不斷地塑造著我們對婚姻的想象和期待。我很好奇,這本書會不會去分析,大眾文化是如何影響我們對婚姻的認知,尤其是那些理想化的愛情故事,它們是否給現實婚姻帶來瞭不切實際的壓力?同時,我也會關注作者是如何處理“時間”這個維度的。現代社會的時間觀念和節奏,與過去是否截然不同?這種快節奏是否也會滲透到婚姻關係中,使得人們更加追求即時的滿足,而忽略瞭長期的經營和維護?我希望這本書能以一種理性的、非評判性的方式,來探討這些復雜的問題,並為讀者提供一些有價值的思考方嚮,幫助我們更好地理解和應對現代婚姻所帶來的挑戰。
评分我一直覺得,現代社會似乎在用一種前所未有的速度拆解著我們曾經習以為常的社會結構,而婚姻,作為最基礎的社會單元之一,無疑是這場變革中最引人注目的焦點。所以,《婚姻與現代性》這個名字,就好像一把鑰匙,能打開我對這些變化背後原因的好奇心。這本書會不會去探討,在我們這個越來越強調個人主義和自我實現的時代,傳統的傢庭觀念是如何受到挑戰的?當“我”的需求變得越來越重要時,一對伴侶如何找到平衡,如何在個體自由與共同承諾之間做齣選擇?我猜想,作者一定對那些新興的傢庭模式,比如丁剋傢庭、單親傢庭、重組傢庭,甚至是更開放的關係模式有所涉獵。這本書會以一種什麼樣的口吻來審視這些非傳統形式?是批判,還是理解?是提供解決方案,還是僅僅提齣問題?我非常期待它能提供一種更加包容和多元的視角,讓我們看到婚姻並非隻有一種固定的模式,而是在不斷地適應和演變。我很想知道,作者是如何將這些宏觀的社會議題,與微觀的個體情感體驗聯係起來的?
评分The valorization of "traditional (arranged) Hindu marriage" as a response to the bourgeois-ation of the Bengali middle class during the colonial period, and the reconfiguration of marriage practices and cultures as a consequence of changes in political economy rather than ideological (patriarchal) hegemony. Touches upon many important issues.
评分The valorization of "traditional (arranged) Hindu marriage" as a response to the bourgeois-ation of the Bengali middle class during the colonial period, and the reconfiguration of marriage practices and cultures as a consequence of changes in political economy rather than ideological (patriarchal) hegemony. Touches upon many important issues.
评分The valorization of "traditional (arranged) Hindu marriage" as a response to the bourgeois-ation of the Bengali middle class during the colonial period, and the reconfiguration of marriage practices and cultures as a consequence of changes in political economy rather than ideological (patriarchal) hegemony. Touches upon many important issues.
评分The valorization of "traditional (arranged) Hindu marriage" as a response to the bourgeois-ation of the Bengali middle class during the colonial period, and the reconfiguration of marriage practices and cultures as a consequence of changes in political economy rather than ideological (patriarchal) hegemony. Touches upon many important issues.
评分The valorization of "traditional (arranged) Hindu marriage" as a response to the bourgeois-ation of the Bengali middle class during the colonial period, and the reconfiguration of marriage practices and cultures as a consequence of changes in political economy rather than ideological (patriarchal) hegemony. Touches upon many important issues.
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