White Saris and Sweet Mangoes : Aging, Gender, and Body in North India /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lamb, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2000]
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
aging.
american history.
bengali.
contemporary.
cultural history.
cultural studies.
domestic.
ethnographer.
ethnography.
family life.
gender studies.
gender.
growing old.
growing up.
human body.
india.
interpersonal.
modern world.
modernity.
relationships.
religion.
religious studies.
rural village.
rural.
small town.
social history.
social life.
social studies.
south asia.
specialists.
united states.
us history.
villagers.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • Introduction: Perspectives through Age
  • Part One. PERSONS AND FAMILIES
  • Part Two. AGING AND DYING
  • Part Three. GENDERED TRANSFORMATIONS
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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