MMW 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Clifford Geertz
3 Mar 2019
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List of types of girls not to marry. Should avoid marrying a girl if she has: (pg62 of kama sutra) Ex: "one who has fully arrived at puberty" "when a girl becomes marriageable her parents should dress her smartly, and should place her where she can be easily seen by all. What type of guy deserves a good wife. Don"t need to control wife if she is in lover with her husband. Portrays a very dutiful wife who is supporting her husband. Always a tension between lustfulness and image of what she should be doing. Husband can help her by constraining his own desires and making her life as good as he can make it. Clifford geertz (anthropologist): "common sense is what the mind filled with presuppositions concludes. Common sense seems to require the least probing, but requires the most. "
