White saris and sweet mangoes : aging, gender, and body in North India /

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 o...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lamb, Sarah, 1960-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2000.
Collection:Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppq7x
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Perspectives through Age
  • 1. Personhoods
  • 2. Family Moral Systems
  • 3. Conflicting Generations: Unreciprocated Houseflows in a Modern Society
  • 4. White Saris and Sweet Mangoes, Partings and Ties
  • 5. Dealing with Mortality
  • 6. Transformations of Gender and Gendered Transformations
  • 7. A Widow's Bonds.