Love in a Colonial Climate
Marriage, Sex and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3617391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tapan Raychaudhuri (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 349-378 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00003309 |
| OpenAlex | W1965029148 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Studies concerned with the intimate areas of human experience suggest that the institutions and social mores structured around the instinctive drives of mankind-such as sex, love and fear, are not meant to serve the same purpose in every culture. Belief systems, world views and culturally-determined expectations from life determine the texture, causation and expression of even our very basic emotions. Nature's purpose for the sexual impulse may be the propagation of the species, but in controlling and harnessing this drive for the ends of social cohesion, different cultures have had very different objectives in view and used very different means. The emotive affects associated with its expression have also varied accordingly
BENGAL · Causation · Colonialism · Emotive · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · Impulse (physics · Instinct · Mores · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.47 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |