
Published online:
24 May 2018
Published in print:
30 September 2017
Online ISBN:
9780824876944
Print ISBN:
9780824865948
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Bonded yet Unbound Bonded yet Unbound
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Autonomy and Attachment in Sociology’s Founding Texts Autonomy and Attachment in Sociology’s Founding Texts
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Autonomy, Attachment, and Popular Culture Autonomy, Attachment, and Popular Culture
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Autonomy, Attachment, and Market Exchange Autonomy, Attachment, and Market Exchange
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Chapter
Ten Taking Autonomy and Attachment Further Afield
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Pages
266–286
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Published:September 2017
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Keeler, Ward, 'Taking Autonomy and Attachment Further Afield', The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma (Honolulu, HI , 2017; online edn, Hawai'i Scholarship Online, 24 May 2018), https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824865948.003.0011, accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Cultural comparison stirs debate because it leads too easily to simplification and stereotyping. Yet it seems worthwhile to note and reflect upon affinities among many Southeast Asian societies. Even beyond the region, the existential contradiction between our desires for autonomy and attachment provides a fruitful analytic approach to much we observe in people’s thinking and behavior. Works by Marx, Durkheim, and Weber can also be looked at from this angle. So can much popular culture, as illustrated by a number of international films that play on the tension between the allure of forming tight bonds and the fear of feeling too tightly bound.
Keywords:
cultural comparison, Southeast Asia, Autonomy, Attachment, sociology’s founders, popular culture
Subject
Buddhism
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