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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المؤلف الرئيسي: Lamb, Sarah, 1960-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2000.
سلاسل:Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppq7x