TY  - GEN
T1  - White saris and sweet mangoes : aging, gender, and body in North India
T2  - Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
A1  - Lamb, Sarah, 1960-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm49570013
AB  - 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 life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have been hampered, the book argues, by a static focus on youth. Lamb's own experiences in the village are an integral part of her book and ably convey the cultural particularities of rural Bengali life and Bengali notions of modernity. In exploring ideals of family life and the intricate interrelationships between and within generations, she enables us to understand how people in the village construct, and deconstruct, their lives. At the same time her study extends beyond India to contemporary attitudes about aging in the United States. This accessible and engaging book is about deeply human issues and will appeal not only to specialists in South Asian culture, but to anyone interested in families, aging, gender, religion, and the body.
OP  - 306
CN  - HQ1064.I4 L36 2000eb
SN  - 9780520935266
SN  - 0520935268
SN  - 0585389578
SN  - 9780585389578
SN  - 1598750046
SN  - 9781598750041
SN  - 1280094877
SN  - 9781280094873
SN  - 9786613520425
SN  - 661352042X
SN  - 0520220005
SN  - 9780520220003
SN  - 0520220013
SN  - 9780520220010
KW  - Older people : India : Bengal : Social conditions.
KW  - Aging : Family relationships : India : Bengal.
KW  - Older people : India : Bengal : Psychological aspects.
KW  - Personnes âgées : Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Vieillissement : Relations familiales : Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
KW  - Personnes âgées : Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) : Aspect psychologique.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Gerontology.
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS : Aging.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - Older people : Social conditions
KW  - India : Bengal
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Bengalen
KW  - Indien
KW  - Alter
KW  - Bejaarden.
KW  - Sociale relaties.
KW  - Familierelaties.
KW  - Psychologische aspecten.
KW  - Femmes : Inde : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe : Inde.
KW  - Vieillissement : Aspect social : Inde.
KW  - Sociologie du corps : Inde.
ER  -