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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Prif Awdur: Lamb, Sarah, 1960-
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2000.
Cyfres:Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppq7x