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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2000.
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| Colecção: | Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppq7x |
Sumário:
- 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.