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White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social li[Read More]


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No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

Friday, February 5th, 2010
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From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old ag[Read More]


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Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad (Tracking Globalization)

Friday, February 5th, 2010
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The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cult[Read More]


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