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The Outsider Wife: Integrating a Foreigner into a Bengali Household
Author(s) -
Bhattacharyya Deborah P.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 0193-5615
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.1992.17.1.9
Subject(s) - wife , bengali , gender studies , sociology , psychology , political science , computer science , law , artificial intelligence
This article analyzes the experience of an American woman in her role as a Bengali wife in India. The article explores the integration of the two roles, “outsider” and “wife.” The relationship between the foreign wife and the extended household of which she is a part is viewed as a system within which all participants collaborate in the construction and the maintenance of the role of the “outsider wife.”